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creators_name: Caldarelli, Guido
creators_name: Garlaschelli, Diego
creators_name: Pietronero, Luciano
creators_id: guido.caldarelli@imtlucca.it
creators_id: diego.garlaschelli@imtlucca.it
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title: Food web structure and the evolution of complex networks
ispublished: pub
subjects: QA75
subjects: QC
divisions: EIC
full_text_status: none
abstract: In addition to traditional properties such as the degree distribution P(k), in this work we propose two other useful quantities that can help in characterizing the topology of food webs quantitatively, namely the allometric scaling relations C(A) and the branch size distribution P(A) which are defined on the spanning tree of the webs. These quantities, whose use has proved relevant in characterizing other different networks appearing in nature (such as river basins, Internet, and vascular systems), are related (in the context of food webs) to the efficiency in the resource transfer and to the stability against species removal. We present the analysis of the data for both real food webs and numerical simulations of a growing network model. Our results allow us to conclude that real food webs display a high degree of both efficiency and stability due to the evolving character of their topology. 
date: 2003
series: Lecture Notes in Physics
number: 625
publisher: Springer-Verlag
pagerange: 148-166
id_number: 10.1007/978-3-540-44943-0_9
refereed: TRUE
isbn: 978-3-540-40372-2
issn: 0075-8450
book_title: Statistical Mechanics of Complex Networks
editors_name: Pastor-Satorras, Romualdo
editors_name: Rubi, Miguel
editors_name: Díaz-Guilera, Albert
official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-44943-0_9
citation:   Caldarelli, Guido and Garlaschelli, Diego and Pietronero, Luciano  Food web structure and the evolution of complex networks.   In:  Statistical Mechanics of Complex Networks.   Lecture Notes in Physics  (625).  Springer-Verlag, pp. 148-166.  ISBN 978-3-540-40372-2      (2003)