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Googling Food Webs : Can an Eigenvector Measure Species' Importance for Coextinctions? Article Related Content Comments: 0 To add a note , highlight some text. Hide notes Make a general comment Jump to Abstract Author Summary Introduction Materials and Methods Results Discussion Supporting Information Acknowledgments Author Contributions References Stefano Allesina 1 * , Mercedes Pascual 2 , 3 , 4 1 National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America, 2 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, 3 Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States of America, 4 Howard Hughes Medical Institute Abstract Top A major challenge in ecology is forecasting the effects of species' extinctions, a pressing problem given current human impacts on the planet. Consequences of species losses such as secondary extinctions are difficult to forecast because s...