Journal
ECOLOGICAL COMPLEXITY
Volume 47, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2021.100951
Keywords
Ecological networks; Robustness; High order interactions; Species coexistence; Coffee agroecosystems
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Funding
- graduate program Posgrado en Ciencias Biologicas, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
- CONACyT scholarship
- UNAM-DGAPAPAPIIT [IN207819]
- [NSF DEB-185,326]
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The resilience of highly diverse ecosystems is challenging to explain, but high order interactions may contribute to their persistence.
The capacity of highly diverse systems to prevail has proven difficult to explain. In addition to methodological issues, the inherent complexity of ecosystems and issues like multicausality, non-linearity and context-specificity make it hard to establish general and unidirectional explanations. Nevertheless, in recent years, high order interactions have been increasingly discussed as a mechanism that benefits the functioning of highly diverse ecosystems and may add to the mechanisms that explain their persistence. Until now, this idea has been explored by means of hypothetical simulated networks. Here, we test this idea using an updated and empirically documented network for a coffee agroecosystem. We identify potentially key nodes and measure network robustness in the face of node removal with and without incorporation of high order interactions. We find that the system's robustness is either increased or unaffected by the addition of high order interactions, in contrast with randomized counterparts with similar structural characteristics. We also propose a method for representing networks with high order interactions as ordinary graphs and a method for measuring their robustness.
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