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Food web dynamics in correlated and autocorrelated environments

In English

Författare

  • Jörgen Ripa
  • A R Ives

Summary, in English

The densities of populations in a community or food web vary as a consequence of both population interactions and environmental (e.g. weather) fluctuations. Populations often respond to the same kinds of environmental fluctuations, and therefore experience correlated environments. Furthermore, some environmental factors change slowly over time, thereby producing positive environmental autocorrelation. We show that the effects of environmental correlation and autocorrelation on the dynamics of the populations in a food web can be large and unintuitive, but can be understood by analyzing the eigenvectors of the community (system) matrix of interactions among populations. For example, environmental correlation and autocorrelation may either obscure or enhance the cyclic dynamics that generally characterize predator-prey interactions even when there is no direct effect of the environment on how species interact. Thus, understanding the population dynamics of species in a food web requires explicit attention to the correlation structure of environmental factors affecting all species.

Publiceringsår

2003

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

369-384

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Theoretical Population Biology

Volym

64

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Academic Press

Ämne

  • Biological Sciences

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Theoretical Population Ecology and Evolution Group

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1096-0325