8.1 HOW DO COMPLEX FOOD WEBS PERSIST IN NATURE?

Chapter 8.1 of the book "Dynamic Food Webs: Multispecies Assemblages, Ecosystem Development and Environmental Change" is presented. It characterizes the ability of complex food webs to thrive in nature based on complexity and stability. It explores the different methods of studying food webs such as topological, empirical and theoretical analyses. It also cites factors that allow food webs to flourish in nature such as omnivory, the importance of weak links, and change in feeding habits.