Petchey
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Current research project
| Title / Titel | Computational modelling of the collapse of ecological communities | ||||
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| Summary / Zusammenfassung | Here we propose a research project about how and why species' traits, interspecific dependencies, and chance, influence the trajectory of ecosystem failure that results form species extinctions. As well as providing a step forward in the understanding of the drivers of ecosystem failures and the ability to provide more realistic extinction scenarios, we imagine findings will apply to other types of systems in other scientific fields. In particular, systems in which the failure of one component can affect the failure risk of other components, a situation that may have caused some of the most significant disasters in recent history. | ||||
| Publications / Publikationen | Title: Extinction and the loss of functional diversity Author(s): Petchey, OL; Gaston, KJ Source: Proceedings of the Royal Society B-Biological Sciences Volume: 269 Issue: 1501 Pages: 1721-1727 Published: AUG 22 2002 Times Cited: 70 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2073Title: Trophically unique species are vulnerable to cascading extinction Author(s): Petchey, Owen L.; Eklof, Anna; Borrvall, Charlotte; et al. Source: American Naturalist Volume: 171 Issue: 5 Pages: 568-579 Published: MAY 2008 Times Cited: 19 DOI: 10.1086/587068Title: Context-dependent effects of predator removal from experimental microcosm communities Author(s): Worsfold, Nicholas T.; Warren, Philip H.; Petchey, Owen L. Source: Oikos Volume: 118 Issue: 9 Pages: 1319-1326 Published: SEP 2009 Times Cited: 4 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2009.17500.x |
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| Funding source(s) / Unterstützt durch |
Private Sector (e.g. Industry) Microsoft Research Limited, Cambridge UK |
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| Duration of Project / Projektdauer | Mar 2011 to Sep 2013 |