Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
4498791 Journal of Theoretical Biology 2007 7 Pages PDF
Abstract

We investigate the relationship between the nested organization of mutualistic systems and their robustness against the extinction of species. We establish that a nested pattern of contacts is the best possible one as far as robustness is concerned, but only when the least linked species have the greater probability of becoming extinct. We introduce a coefficient that provides a quantitative measure of the robustness of a mutualistic system.

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