The impact of structured higher-order interactions on ecological network stability.

ABSTRACT: The impact of higher-order interactions, those involving more than two species, is increasingly appreciated as having the potential to strongly influence the dynamics of complex ecological systems. However, although the critical importance of the structure of pairwise interaction networks is well established, studies of higher-order interactions still largely assume random structures. Here, we demonstrate the strong impact of structured higher-order interactions on simulated ecological communities. We focus on effects caused by interaction modifications within food webs, where a consumer resource interaction is modified by a third species, and for which plausible structures can be hypothesised. We show how interaction modifications introduced under a range of non-random distributions may i

SUBMITTER: Terry JCD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12799688 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature