title: Ecology: engineered food webs.
abstract: An important new study shows that, in a food web, the strengths and arrangement of the interactions between species are determining factors of stability of the system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 37996, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Manne
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Pimm
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001070:Appetitive Behavior; D008954:Models, Biological