2006/09/30 by E. Burgos, Enrique Burgos, H. Ceva +11
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Complex Network Analysis Techniques #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Plant and animal studies #q-bio.PE
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.07.030
Journal of Theoretical Biology (Accepted, 2007)
openalex publication_date 2007/08/11 · arxiv created 2007/09/20 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
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.