The stability of complex ``ecosystems'' is central to
the study of communities of interacting components, such as:
| Question:
How does the stability of systems with many interacting components change as a function of `species' diversity and the strength of interactions ? |
Theory (Robert May, 1972):
An ecosystem can become unstable against perturbations
when its complexity increases beyond a certain value.
But this view seems to be contradicted by actual observations of real ecosystems.
This is the basis for the Stability vs. Diversity debate in ecology