The DOI matches its Crossref record; 29 of the 29 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Foraging Adaptation and the Relationship Between Food-Web Complexity and Stability
Abstract
Ecological theory suggests that complex food webs should not persist because of their inherent instability. “Real” ecosystems often support a large number of interacting species. A mathematical model shows that fluctuating short-term selection on trophic links, arising from a consumer's adaptive food choice, is a key to the long-term stability of complex communities. Without adaptive foragers, food-web complexity destabilizes community composition; whereas in their presence, complexity may enhance community persistence through facilitation of dynamical food-web reconstruction that buffers environmental fluctuations. The model predicts a linkage pattern consistent with field observations.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Will a Large Complex System be Stable?
MAY, R. M. (1972) · Nature · doi:10.1038/238413a0 · Cited by 2,869
Phenotypic Plasticity in the Interactions and Evolution of Species
Agrawal, A. A. (2001) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1060701 · Cited by 1,630
Complex Trophic Interactions in Deserts: An Empirical Critique of Food-Web Theory
Polis, G. A. (1991) · The American Naturalist · doi:10.1086/285208 · Cited by 1,041
The Evolution of Predator-Prey Interactions: Theory and Evidence
Abrams, P. A. (2000) · Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics · doi:10.1146/annurev.ecolsys.31.1.79 · Cited by 912
Rapid evolution as an ecological process
Thompson, J. N. (1998) · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · doi:10.1016/s0169-5347(98)01378-0 · Cited by 892
Stability in Real Food Webs: Weak Links in Long Loops
Neutel, A.-M., Heesterbeek, J. A. P., & de Ruiter, P. C. (2002) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1068326 · Cited by 833
Complexity and fragility in ecological networks
Solé, R. V., & Montoya, M. (2001) · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2001.1767 · Cited by 799
Food-web analysis through field measurement of per capita interaction strength
Paine, R. T. (1992) · Nature · doi:10.1038/355073a0 · Cited by 735
Artifacts or Attributes? Effects of Resolution on the Little Rock Lake Food Web
Martinez, N. D. (1991) · Ecological Monographs · doi:10.2307/2937047 · Cited by 696
Number of trophic levels in ecological communities
PIMM, S. L., & LAWTON, J. H. (1977) · Nature · doi:10.1038/268329a0 · Cited by 672
Cited by
Tolerance of pollination networks to species extinctions
Memmott, J., Waser, N. M., & Price, M. V. (2004) · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences · doi:10.1098/rspb.2004.2909 · Cited by 1,238
A dynamical model of general intelligence: The positive manifold of intelligence by mutualism.
Van Der Maas, H. L. J., Dolan, C. V., Grasman, R. P. P. P., Wicherts, J. M., Huizenga, H. M., & Raijmakers, M. E. J. (2006) · Psychological Review · doi:10.1037/0033-295x.113.4.842 · Cited by 1,006
Network thinking in ecology and evolution
PROULX, S., PROMISLOW, D., & PHILLIPS, P. (2005) · Trends in Ecology & Evolution · doi:10.1016/j.tree.2005.04.004 · Cited by 936
The dynamics of spatially coupled food webs.
McCann, K. S., Rasmussen, J. B., & Umbanhowar, J. (2005) · Ecology Letters · doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2005.00742.x · Cited by 648
Allometric scaling enhances stability in complex food webs
Brose, U., Williams, R. J., & Martinez, N. D. (2006) · Ecology Letters · doi:10.1111/j.1461-0248.2006.00978.x · Cited by 623
Metadata
- Authors
- Kondoh, M.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2003-02-28
- Volume
- 299
- Issue
- 5611
- Pages
- 1388-1391
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W1996263122
- Cited by
- 707
- References
- 29
- FWCI
- 28.68
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Foraging Adaptation and the Relationship Between Food-Web Complexity and Stability. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1126/science.1079154
- The paper
- Kondoh, M. (2003). Foraging Adaptation and the Relationship Between Food-Web Complexity and Stability. Science. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1079154
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
