György Barabás

Maximum trophic level predicts food webs susceptibility to coextinctions

The paper uses Bayesian network models to show that food webs with high maximum trophic level are most vulnerable to coextinctions, outperforming other structural metrics in predicting ecosystem susceptibility.

Weak dispersal and landscape size inevitably promote local biodiversity in heterogeneous metacommunities of competing species

The paper explains how weak dispersal and larger landscapes increase local biodiversity in competitive species by linking spatial coexistence to nonspatial competitive dynamics and validates this with simulations and field data.

Cascading effects of species loss on ecosystem service provisioning in a marine food web

The paper simulates secondary extinctions in a marine food web to assess their impact on ecosystem services, finding that species interactions significantly affect service provisioning.

Label invariance: a guiding principle for ecological models

This paper introduces label invariance as a principle for ecological models, showing it ensures consistency in dynamics across population groupings and aids in model selection and evaluation.

Destabilizing effects of eco-evolutionary feedback on community stability and the role of climate change

The paper shows eco-evolutionary feedback can destabilize community dynamics in complex systems, and warming exacerbates this effect.

Variation in precipitation drives differences in interactions and short-term transient instability between grassland functional groups: a stage-structured community approach

The paper models short- and long-term responses of grassland functional groups to precipitation extremes using stage-structured community models and pseudospectral theory.