TY  - JOUR
IS  - 04
Y1  - 2011///
VL  - 14
TI  - Population Dynamics On Complex Food Webs
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/S0219525911003116
PB  - World Scientific Publishing
A1  - Palamara, Gian Marco 
A1  - Zlatic, Vinko
A1  - Scala, Antonio
A1  - Caldarelli, Guido
AV  - none
SN  - 0219-5259
KW  - Complex networks; food webs; population dynamics
N2  - In this work we analyze the topological and dynamical properties of a simple model of complex food webs, namely the niche model. In order to underline competition among species, we introduce "prey" and "predators" weighted overlap graphs derived from the niche model and compare synthetic food webs with real data. Doing so, we find new tests for the goodness of synthetic food web models and indicate a possible direction of improvement for existing ones. We then exploit the weighted overlap graphs to define a competition kernel for Lotka?Volterra population dynamics and find that for such a model the stability of food webs decreases with its ecological complexity.
ID  - eprints1079
JF  - Advances in Complex Systems
ER  -