Understanding the mechanisms controlling community diversity, functions, succession, and
biogeography is a central, but poorly understood, topic in ecology, particularly in microbial …

The observed architecture of ecological and socio-economic networks differssignificantly
from that of random networks. From a network science standpoint, non-random structural …

Modern computer-intensive statistical methods play a key role in solving many problems
across a wide range of scientific disciplines. This new edition of the bestselling …

Recent studies uncovered important core/periphery network structures characterizing
complex sets of cooperative and competitive interactions between network nodes, be they …

Nonmetric multidimensional scaling (NMDS) is a powerful statistical tool which enables
complex multivariate data sets to be visualized in a reduced number of dimensions. Users …

Stochasticity is a core component of ecology, as it underlies key processes that structure and
create variability in nature. Despite its fundamental importance in ecological systems, the …

A key focus in ecology is to search for community assembly rules. Here we compare two
community modelling frameworks that integrate a combination of environmental and spatial …

Environmental changes strongly impact the distribution of species and subsequently the
composition of species assemblages. Although most community ecology studies represent …

Aim More than ever, ecologists seek to understand how species are distributed and have
assembled into communities using the “filtering framework”. This framework is based on the …

Ecologists are fascinated by the prevalence of nestedness in biogeographic and community
data, where it is thought to promote biodiversity in mutualistic systems. Traditionally …