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IN 1970, Garner and Ashby1 asked an important question: “If a large system is assembled (connected) at random, or has grown haphazardly, should we expect it to be stable or unstable?” They snowed on a linear model that probability of stability generally decreases with the increase of the degree of connectedness among the parts of the system. This fact was confirmed by May2 in a study of large systems in the ecological context.
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ŠILJAK, D. Connective stability of complex ecosystems. Nature 249, 280 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/249280a0
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