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

• Main Authors: Saavedra, Serguei, Rohr, Rudolf P., Olesen, Jens M., Bascompte, Jordi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2016
• Subjects: Coexistence; Feasibility; Global stability; Mutualistic networks; Mutualistic strength; Nestedness; Greenland; Newcomer; Zackenberg
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11850/112855; https://doi.org/10.3929/ethz-b-000112855

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 species abu...