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{
  "title": "Revisiting the links-species scaling relationship in food webs",
  "upload_type": "preprint",
  "access_right": "open",
  "license": "CC-BY",
  "language": "en",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliation": ["Université de Montréal, Département de Sciences Biologiques, H2V 0B3, Montréal, QC, Canada", "Québec Centre for Biodiversity Sciences, H3A 1B1, Montréal QC, Canada"],
      "familyname": "MacDonald",
      "givennames": "Arthur Andrew Meahan",
      "orcid": "0000-0003-1162-169X",
      "email": "a.a.m.macdonald@gmail.com"
    },
    {
      "affiliation": ["Université de Montréal, Département de Sciences Biologiques, H2V 0B3, Montréal QC, Canada", "Québec Centre for Biodiversity Sciences, H3A 1B1, Montréal QC, Canada"],
      "familyname": "Banville",
      "givennames": "Francis",
      "orcid": "0000-0001-9051-0597"
    },
    {
      "affiliation": ["Université de Montréal, Département de Sciences Biologiques, H2V 0B3, Montréal QC, Canada", "Québec Centre for Biodiversity Sciences, H3A 1B1, Montréal QC, Canada"],
      "familyname": "Poisot",
      "givennames": "Timothée",
      "orcid": "0000-0002-0735-5184"
    }
  ],
  "abstract": "Predicting the number of interactions that species in a food web will establish is an important task. These trophic interactions underlie many ecological and evolutionary processes, ranging from biomass fluxes, ecosystem stability, resilience to extinction, and resistance against novel species. We investigate and compare several ways to predict the number of interactions in food webs. We conclude that a simple beta-binomial model outperforms other models, with the added desirable property of respecting biological constraints. We show how this simple relationship gives rise to a predicted distribution of several quantities related to link number in food webs, including the scaling of network structure with space, and the probability that a network will be stable.",
  "keywords": ["food webs", "constant connectance", "link species scaling", "power law"]
}