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| relation to other work | claim_relations | how this paper stands to another: agrees, contradicts, extends, qualifies |
| claim type | claim_type | the shape of the claim: existence, mechanism, method, critique, prediction, null |
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| concept | concepts | an idea the paper works with, quoted where the paper uses it |
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| contribution | contribution | what the paper claims to add |
| control | controls | an experiment run to eliminate a rival explanation |
| limitation | limitations | what the paper says its evidence cannot support |
| mechanism | mechanisms | how the reported effect is said to come about |
| method | method | how the paper produced its evidence |
| object of study | object_of_study | what the paper is about — the thing it investigates |
| phenomenon | phenomenon | the effect or regularity under study |
| research question | research_question | the question the paper sets itself |
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| transfer | transfers | a method or concept carried in from another field |
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| facet | tag | field | conf. | whose words |
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| object_of_study | Three of the best-described food webs in the ecological literature - Ythan estuary, Silwood Park and Little Rock Lake - treated as graphs and subjected to simulated species loss. Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | object_of_study | the paper's words | |
| research_question | How much of an ecosystem's fragility follows from the shape of its food web rather than from the ecology of the species in it? Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | research_question | the paper's words | |
| contribution | Shows that food webs inherit the robust-yet-fragile signature of scale-free networks, and turns 'keystone species' from a qualitative label into a topological one that can be computed from the web. Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | contribution | the paper's words | |
| claim_type | mechanism Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | claim_type | the paper's words | |
| phenomenon | food web robustness and fragility under species removal Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | phenomenon | the paper's words | |
| method | simulation Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. also in: simulation | method | the paper's words | |
| mechanisms | mechanisms Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | mechanisms[0] | the tagger's words | |
| mechanisms | mechanisms Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | mechanisms[1] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| mechanisms | mechanisms Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | mechanisms[2] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| mechanisms | mechanisms Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | mechanisms[3] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| limitations | The approach lacks population dynamics and is constrained by the taxonomic resolution of the webs. Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. what this limits: every fragility estimate in the paper: THIS APPROXIMATION TO COMMUNITY FRAGILITY HAS OBVIOUS CAVEATS DERIVED FROM A LACK OF DYNAMICS AND TAXONOMIC LIMITATIONS | limitations[0] | the tagger's words | |
| limitations | The analysis treats food webs as undirected, unweighted graphs. Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. what this limits: any claim about who eats whom or how much: the analysis treats food webs as undirected, unweighted graphs - direction and magnitude are discarded before it begins | limitations[1] | the tagger's words | |
| limitations | Only three food webs could be analysed, because of the scarcity of adequately resolved data. Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. what this limits: the generality of the food-web results: OUR STUDY IS LIMITED TO THE THREE RICHEST AND BEST-DESCR[ibed webs], BECAUSE OF THE LIMITATIONS OF THE AVAILABLE DATA IN TERMS OF BOTH TAXONOMIC RESOLUTION AND SIZE | limitations[2] | the tagger's words | |
| limitations | The analysis has no population dynamics in it at all - only the graph. Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. what this limits: every fragility result: the analysis has no population dynamics in it, only the graph | limitations[3] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| limitations | Interactions are treated as undirected and unweighted, so who eats whom and how strongly are both discarded. Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. what this limits: any claim about interaction direction or strength: OUR FINDINGS ARE BASED ON A NON-DIRECTED, AND NON-WEIGHTED GRAPH | limitations[4] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| limitations | Three food webs, chosen because they are the only ones well enough described - the sample is the whole available population, not a random draw from it. Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. what this limits: the generality of the conclusion: Quotation withheld - three because three is all there was | limitations[5] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| limitations | One of the three webs resolves only 31% of its nodes to species, so its degree distribution is partly an artefact of taxonomy. Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. what this limits: the degree distribution of that web: ONLY 31% OF NODES ARE REAL SPECIES, BEING MOST OF THE NODES GENERA-LEVEL (63%) AND THE REST CORRESPONDING TO HIGHER TAXA - connectivity depends partly on how finely each group was resolved | limitations[6] | 0.9 | the tagger's words |
| transfers | the robustness/fragility (error- vs attack-tolerance) framework from complex networks applied to ecological food webs Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | transfers[0] | the tagger's words | |
| transfers | the error-and-attack-tolerance analysis of scale-free graphs, applied to species loss in ecological communities Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | transfers[1] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| controls | the ecological graphs subjected to RANDOM node removal as well as to selective removal aimed at the most connected species Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. eliminates: the fragility being a property of removing nodes at all rather than of removing the RIGHT nodes - random removal is the same operation without the targeting · outcome (stated by the tagger, no quotation): held | controls[0] | 0.85 | the tagger's words |
| controls | the behaviour compared against purely random networks, where the degree distribution is Poissonian Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. eliminates: a robustness property that any network would show - the random graph is the object the claim must beat, and it has to be constructed rather than observed · outcome (stated by the tagger, no quotation): held | controls[1] | 0.85 | the tagger's words |
| concepts | food web Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. also in: food web | concepts[0] | the paper's words | |
| concepts | keystone species Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. also in: keystone species | concepts[3] | the paper's words | |
| concepts | species Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. also in: species | concepts[4] | 1.0 | the paper's words |
| concepts | node Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. also in: node | concepts[5] | 1.0 | the paper's words |
| concepts | link Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. also in: link | concepts[6] | 1.0 | the paper's words |
| concepts | scale-free Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. also in: scale-free | concepts[7] | 1.0 | the paper's words |
| concepts | small world Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. also in: small world | concepts[8] | 1.0 | the paper's words |
| concepts | random networks Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. also in: random networks | concepts[9] | 0.85 | the paper's words |
| concepts | secondary extinctions Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. also in: secondary extinctions | concepts[10] | 1.0 | the paper's words |
| concepts | homeostasis Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. also in: homeostasis | concepts[11] | 1.0 | the paper's words |
| concepts | topology Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. also in: topology | concepts[12] | 1.0 | the paper's words |
| concepts | percolation Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. also in: percolation | concepts[13] | 1.0 | the paper's words |
| senses | network - a food web, whose nodes are species and whose links are trophic relations Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | senses[0] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| senses | network - biological and technological networks generally, sharing one graph of interaction and one response to node removal Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | senses[1] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| senses | fragility - in ecology, how a community responds to losing species, which the paper reads as the graph's response to losing nodes Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | senses[2] | 0.9 | the tagger's words |
| alternatives | claim_type: mechanism Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. a second reading reaching the same value. Recorded: mechanism — note: a second reading reaching the same value from a different sentence. Not applied - a person decides. | alternatives.claim_type | the tagger's words | |
| alternatives | phenomenon: robustness of food webs to random species loss and fragility to loss of the most connected species Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. a second reading DIFFERING from the recorded value. Recorded: food web robustness and fragility under species removal — note: a second reading, verbatim-verified, disagreeing with the value on the record. Not applied - a person decides. | alternatives.phenomenon | the tagger's words | |
| claim_relations | builds-on → scale-free network theory Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | claim_relations[0] | the tagger's words | |
| claim_relations | builds-on → network error-and-attack tolerance results Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | claim_relations[1] | the tagger's words | |
| claim_relations | builds-on → Montoya and Solé (2000), small-world and scale-free patterns in food webs Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | claim_relations[2] | the tagger's words | |
| claim_relations | extends → Albert et al. (2000) and Jeong et al. (2000), error and attack tolerance of complex networks Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | claim_relations[3] | the tagger's words | |
| claim_relations | builds-on → Bond (1993) and Davic (2000) on keystone species beyond top predators Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | claim_relations[4] | the tagger's words | |
| claim_relations | builds-on → Albert, Jeong and Barabasi (2000), error and attack tolerance of complex networks Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | claim_relations[5] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| claim_relations | builds-on → Jeong et al. 2000, the metabolic-network analysis in this same corpus Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | claim_relations[6] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| claim_relations | WITHDRAWN AND REPLACED (RETRACTED AND RE-ADDED WITH THE FINDING CORRECTED) · extends → Montoya and Sole (2000), which showed food webs are scale-free Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. WITHDRAWN AND REPLACED: RETRACTED AND RE-ADDED WITH THE FINDING CORRECTED. The target said the cited paper 'SHOWED FOOD WEBS ARE SCALE-FREE'. The span says '…DISPLAY SMALL-WORLD PROPERTIES (Montoya and Sole, 2000)…' SMALL-WORLD IS NOT SCALE-FREE - they are distinct properties and the difference is exactly what this literature argues about. The quote was exact, the anchor resolved and the endpoints were attested throughout: 'target' is the one field of the pair that nothing checks, and it is the fold key. | claim_relations[7] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| claim_relations | extends → Montoya and Sole (2000), which showed these networks display small-world properties Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | claim_relations[8] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| concept_edges | keystone species —operationalised-as→ topology Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. strength of the relation: 1
Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its span and kept, but the span says topology rather than trophic position determines which species are keystone; operationalised-as is loose. also in: keystone species · topology | concept_edges[0] | the tagger's words | |
| concept_edges | food web —is-a→ scale-free Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. strength of the relation: 1
Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its full span and kept, but the span writes 'scalefree distributions of connections'; endpoint variant, is-a loose. also in: food web · scale-free | concept_edges[2] | the tagger's words | |
| concept_edges | food web —is-a→ small world Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. strength of the relation: 1
Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its full span and kept, but endpoint by anaphora: 'these networks' = the three food webs (previous sentences); is-a is loose. also in: food web · small world | concept_edges[3] | the tagger's words | |
| concept_edges | EVIDENCE CORRECTED (RE-GROUNDED) · keystone species —causes→ secondary extinctions Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. EVIDENCE CORRECTED: RE-GROUNDED. The old span named neither endpoint. This sentence names both and states the causal link the edge asserts - removal of keystone species producing secondary extinctions. — strength of the relation: 1
Audit 2026-09-28: DOUBTFUL - read against its full span and kept, but the span reports extinction rates up to 95 times higher when keystone species are removed; 'secondary extinctions' is a variant. also in: keystone species · secondary extinctions | concept_edges[5] | the tagger's words | |
| content_tags | three — number of species-rich ecosystem food webs analysed Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | content_tags.quantities[0] | the tagger's words | |
| content_tags | P(k) ≈ k^-γ — scale-free power-law degree distribution of the food webs Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. about this quote: QUOTE REPAIRED: the extractor split a hyphen-space and the quote was recorded faithfully with the damage in it, which made it unanchorable. The repaired string is an EXACT SUBSTRING of the staged text - that is why it was accepted, not because a rule produced it. The text as originally recorded is kept in evidence as extracted. | content_tags.quantities[1] | the tagger's words | |
| content_tags | Ns = 134 species — size of the Ythan estuary food web Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | content_tags.quantities[2] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| content_tags | <k> = 4.75 — average links per species in the Silwood Park web Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | content_tags.quantities[3] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| content_tags | <k> = 26.05 — average links per species in the Little Rock Lake web Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | content_tags.quantities[4] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| content_tags | 95 times higher — ratio of extinction rate under directed removal to random removal Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | content_tags.quantities[5] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| content_tags | 88% real species — taxonomic resolution of the Ythan estuary web Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | content_tags.quantities[6] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| content_tags | Ecological networks are extremely robust against random removal but very fragile under selective attacks. Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | content_tags.findings[0] | the tagger's words | |
| content_tags | This robust-yet-fragile structure bears on biodiversity dynamics, extinction-rate estimates, and the definition of keystone species. Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | content_tags.findings[1] | the tagger's words | |
| content_tags | The food webs show high homeostasis under random species removal, with a slow, linear decrease in the fraction of species in the largest cluster. Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | content_tags.findings[2] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| content_tags | Directed removal of the most connected species is catastrophic - extinction rates run up to 95 times higher than under random removal. Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | content_tags.findings[3] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| content_tags | The scale-free distribution itself is stable under random loss of more than half the species, and collapses after only a few directed removals. Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | content_tags.findings[4] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| content_tags | The topology of the food web, rather than the trophic position of species, determines which species are keystone. Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. | content_tags.findings[5] | 0.9 | the tagger's words |
| content_tags | size of the largest species cluster Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. also in: size of the largest species cluster | content_tags.variables[3] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| content_tags | secondary extinctions Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. also in: secondary extinctions | content_tags.definitions[2] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| content_tags | keystone species Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. also in: keystone species | content_tags.definitions[3] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| content_tags | power law distribution Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. also in: power law distribution | content_tags.definitions[5] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| content_tags | p-value Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. also in: p-value | content_tags.statistics[0] | the tagger's words | |
| content_tags | power-law Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. also in: power-law | content_tags.statistics[1] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| content_tags | poisson-distribution Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. also in: poisson-distribution | content_tags.statistics[2] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
| content_tags | mean Quotation withheld — this record is not cleared for redistribution. The sentence is in the paper at the link above. also in: mean | content_tags.statistics[3] | 1.0 | the tagger's words |
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