Synchrony has fundamental but conflicting implications for the persistence and stability of
food webs at local and regional scales. In a constant environment, compensatory dynamics …

Natural food webs are species‐rich, but classical theory suggests that they should be
unstable and extinction‐prone. Asynchronous fluctuations in the densities of competing …

Environmental fluctuations influence patterns of synchrony and stability in species
abundances. Most of our understanding of synchrony and stability stems from competitive …

The strength of interspecific interactions is often proposed to affect food web stability, with
weaker interactions increasing the persistence of species, and food webs as a whole …

Weak trophic interactions have been shown to promote the stability of ecological food webs
characterized by perfect mixing. However, their importance at the landscape level and …

Biodiversity has been shown to increase the temporal stability of community and ecosystem
attributes through multiple mechanisms, but these same mechanisms make less consistent …

The pattern of predator–prey interactions is thought to be a key determinant of ecosystem
processes and stability. Complex ecological networks are characterized by distributions of …

A tenet of ecology is that temporal variability in ecological structure and processes tends to
decrease with increasing spatial scales (from locales to regions) and levels of biological …

For some time, ecologists have sought to find a general relationship between diversity and
stability (Odum, 1953; MacArthur, 1955; May, 1973; DeAngelis, 1975; Yodzis, 1981a) …

There is growing evidence from a wide range of ecological systems that local population,
community, and ecosystem dynamics can be dramatically influenced by fluxes of organisms …