Nested species interactions promote feasibility over stability during the assembly of a pollinator community

• Published in: Ecology and Evolution
• Main Authors: Saavedra, Serguei, Rohr, Rudolf P., Olesen, Jens M., Bascompte, Jordi
• Other Authors: European Research Council
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2016
• Subjects: Greenland; Zackenberg
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1930; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fece3.1930; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/ece3.1930; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full-xml/10.1002/ece3.1930

Abstract The foundational concepts behind the persistence of ecological communities have been based on two ecological properties: dynamical stability and feasibility. The former is typically regarded as the capacity of a community to return to an original equilibrium state after a perturbation in sp...