Adaptive rewiring aggravates the effects of species loss in ecosystems
2015
The formation of new feeding links by consumers adapting to the loss of prey is thought to buffer food webs against cascading extinctions. However, Ebenman et al. show that adaptive rewiring can still cause extinction cascades if predators are efficient at capturing rare prey, leading to overexploitation of resources.
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