Robustness of rigid and adaptive networks to species loss

Savannah Nuwagaba; Feng Zhang; Cang Hui

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0189086

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Robustness of rigid and adaptive networks to species loss

Savannah Nuwagaba,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa
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Feng Zhang ,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: fzhang188@163.com (FZ); chui@sun.ac.za (CH)

Affiliation MOE Key Laboratory for Grassland Ecosystem and Center for Quantitative Biology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China
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Cang Hui

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: fzhang188@163.com (FZ); chui@sun.ac.za (CH)

Affiliations Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa, Mathematical and Physical Biosciences, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Muizenberg, South Africa

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3660-8160

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Robustness of rigid and adaptive networks to species loss

Savannah Nuwagaba,
Feng Zhang,
Cang Hui

Published: December 7, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0189086

About the Authors

Savannah Nuwagaba

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa

Feng Zhang

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: fzhang188@163.com (FZ); chui@sun.ac.za (CH)

Affiliation MOE Key Laboratory for Grassland Ecosystem and Center for Quantitative Biology, Gansu Agricultural University, Lanzhou, China

Cang Hui

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: fzhang188@163.com (FZ); chui@sun.ac.za (CH)

Affiliations Centre for Invasion Biology, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Stellenbosch University, Matieland, South Africa, Mathematical and Physical Biosciences, African Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Muizenberg, South Africa

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3660-8160

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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