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Community ecology

the proposal that many weak trophic links dampen oscillations in strong consumer-resource interactions and so stabilize food webs.

In community ecology, weak interaction hypothesis refers to the proposal that many weak trophic links dampen oscillations in strong consumer-resource interactions and so stabilize food webs. This meaning comes from McCann (1998) in Nature.[1]

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community5 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs hypothesis2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs interaction3 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

McCann, K., Hastings, A., & Huxel, G. R. (1998). Weak trophic interactions and the balance of nature. Nature, 395(6704), 794-798. https://doi.org/10.1038/27427

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