Dr Daniel B Stouffer

Phone: +64 3 364 2987 ext. 6729
Office: Biological Sciences 335

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Fields of Research

• Complex Systems Ecology

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Researcher Summary

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Subject Area: Disciplines

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Publications

• Poole, A.M., Stouffer, D.B. and Tylianakis, J.M. (2012) 'Ecosystomics': ecology by sequencer. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 27(6): 309-310. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2012.03.008. (Journal Article)

• Stouffer, D.B., Sales-Pardo, M., Sirer, M.I. and Bascompte, J. (2012) Evolutionary Conservation of Species' Roles in Food Webs. Science 335(6075): 1489-1492. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1216556. (Journal Article)

• Thompson, R.M., Brose, U., Dunne, J.A., Hall Jr., R.O., Hladyz, S., Kitching, R.L., Martinez, N.D., Rantala, H., Romanuk, T.N., Stouffer, D.B. and Tylianakis, J.M. (2012) Food webs: reconciling the structure and function of biodiversity. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 27(12): 689-697. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2012.08.005. (Journal Article)

• Stouffer, D.B. and Bascompte, J. (2011) Compartmentalization increases food-web persistence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA 108(9): 3648-3652. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1014353108. (Journal Article)

• Saavedra, S., Stouffer, D.B., Uzzi, B. and Bascompte, J. (2011) Strong contributors to network persistence are the most vulnerable to extinction. Nature 478(7368): 233-235. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nature10433. (Journal Article)

• Stouffer, D.B., Rezende, E.L. and Amaral, L.A.N. (2011) The role of body mass in diet contiguity and food-web structure. Journal of Animal Ecology 80(3): 632-639. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01812.x. (Journal Article)

• Fortuna, M.A., Stouffer, D.B., Olesen, J.M., Jordano, P., Mouillot, D., Krasnov, B.R., Poulin, R. and Bascompte, J. (2010) Nestedness versus modularity in ecological networks: two sides of the same coin. Journal of Animal Ecology 79(4): 811-817. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01688.x. (Journal Article)

• Guimerà, R., Stouffer, D.B., Sales-Pardo, M., Leicht, E.A., Newman, M.E.J. and Amaral, L.A.N. (2010) Origin of compartmentalization in food webs. Ecology 91(10): 2941-2951. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/09-1175.1. (Journal Article)

• Stouffer, D.B. (2010) Scaling from individuals to networks in food webs. Functional Ecology 24(1): 44-51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2009.01644.x. (Journal Article)

• Stouffer, D.B. and Bascompte, J. (2010) Understanding food-web persistence from local to global scales. Ecology Letters 13(2): 154-161. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01407.x. (Journal Article)

• Stouffer, D.B., Fortuna, M.A. and Bascompte, J. (2009) Ideas for moving beyond structure to dynamics of ecological networks. In S. Boccaletti, V. Latora and Y. Moreno (Ed.), World Scientific Lecture Notes in Complex Systems, Vol. 10: Handbook on Biological Networks: 307-328. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company. (Chapter in Book)

• Malmgren, R.D., Stouffer, D.B., Campanharo, A.S.L.O. and Amaral, L.A.N. (2009) On Universality in Human Correspondence Activity. Science 325(5948): 1696-1700. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1174562. (Journal Article)

• Bascompte, J. and Stouffer, D.B. (2009) The assembly and disassembly of ecological networks. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 364(1524): 1781-1787. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2008.0226. (Journal Article)

• Malmgren, R.D., Stouffer, D.B., Motter, A.E. and Amaral, L.A. (2008) A Poissonian explanation for heavy tails in e-mail communication. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA 105(47): 18153-18158. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0800332105. (Journal Article)

• Stouffer, D.B., Ng, C.A. and Amaral, L.A.N. (2008) Ecological engineering and sustainability: A new opportunity for chemical engineering. AIChE Journal 54(12): 3040-3047. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aic.11720. (Journal Article)

• Stouffer, D.B., Camacho, J., Jiang, W. and Amaral, L.A.N. (2007) Evidence for the existence of a robust pattern of prey selection in food webs. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274(1621): 1931-1940. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2007.0571. (Journal Article)

• Camacho, J., Stouffer, D.B. and Amaral, L.A.N. (2007) Quantitative analysis of the local structure of food webs. Journal of Theoretical Biology 246(2): 260-268. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtbi.2006.12.036. (Journal Article)

• Stouffer, D.B., Camacho, J. and Amaral, L.A.N. (2006) A robust measure of food web intervality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103(50): 19015-19020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0603844103. (Journal Article)

• Stouffer, D. B., Camacho, J., Guimerà R., Ng C. A. and Amaral L. A.N. (2005) Quantitative patterns in the structure of model and empirical food webs. Ecology 86(5): 1301-1311. http://www.esajournals.org/doi/abs/10.1890/04-0957. (Journal Article)