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
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2016
• Subjects: Original Research; Greenland; Newcomer; Zackenberg
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4761787/; https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.1930

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...