Fig. 3.

Juvenile–adult stage structure stabilizes community dynamics. (A) Examples of dynamics of all species in food web simulations without stage structure (Top) and including stage structure with foraging and predation asymmetry between juveniles and adults (Bottom). Corresponding food web structures are shown in Fig. 2 B, Right. (B) Boxplot of minimum (blue bars) and maximum (red bars) total densities of all populations as a function of community size for all persisting species in 500 replicate food web simulations without (Top) and with stage structure and foraging and predation asymmetry between juveniles and adults (Bottom).