Food Web Complexity and Species Diversity
- R. Paine
- Environmental ScienceAmerican Naturalist
- 1 January 1966
It is suggested that local animal species diversity is related to the number of predators in the system and their efficiency in preventing single species from monopolizing some important, limiting,…
Trophic Downgrading of Planet Earth
- J. Estes, J. Terborgh, D. Wardle
- Environmental ScienceScience
- 15 July 2011
This empirical work supports long-standing theory about the role of top-down forcing in ecosystems but also highlights the unanticipated impacts of trophic cascades on processes as diverse as the dynamics of disease, wildfire, carbon sequestration, invasive species, and biogeochemical cycles.
Challenges in the Quest for Keystones
This list of scientists and lecturers from the United States and Canada who have contributed to the scientific literature over the past 25 years has been compiled.
Biological Accommodation in the Benthic Community at McMurdo Sound, Antarctica
- P. Dayton, G. Robilliard, R. Paine, L. Dayton
- Environmental Science
- 1 February 1974
Data from the field surveys and the energetics studies suggest that Mycale is prevented from dominating the space resource by the predation of two asteroids.
Food webs : linkage, interaction strength and community infrastructure
- R. Paine
- Environmental Science
- 1 October 1980
It seems particularly opportune to discuss food webs and evolving views on their structure here for both their genesis and first modern treatment (Elton 1927) and much of their later development (May…
Intertidal Landscapes: Disturbance and the Dynamics of Pattern
It is suggested that the reproductive season of certain long—lived, patch—dependent species is moulded by the disturbance regime, and the necessary and vital connection between disturbance which generates spatial pattern and species richness in communities open to invasion is discussed.
Compounded Perturbations Yield Ecological Surprises
- R. Paine, M. Tegner, E. Johnson
- Environmental ScienceEcosystems
- 1 November 1998
ABSTRACT All species have evolved in the presence of disturbance, and thus are in a sense matched to the recurrence pattern of the perturbations. Consequently, disturbances within the typical range,…
A Note on Trophic Complexity and Community Stability
- R. Paine
- Environmental ScienceAmerican Naturalist
- 1 January 1969
The most workable definition involves statements about the relative variability of population numbers in space and/or time, although limits on the extent of the spatial dimension are not usually stated, and collections of acceptable data through time are tedious to gather, and hence minimal.
Intertidal community structure
- R. Paine
- Environmental ScienceOecologia
- 1 June 1974
Along exposed rocky intertidal shorelines of western North America the mussel Mytilus californianus exists as a characteristic, well-defined band, and measurements at Mukkaw Bay and Tatoosh Island suggest that the upper limit to distribution is constant.
Food-web analysis through field measurement of per capita interaction strength
- R. Paine
- Environmental ScienceNature
- 2 January 1992
THE idea that the connections between species in ecological assemblages are characterized by a trait called 'interaction strength' has become a cornerstone of modern ecology. Since the classic paper…
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