The resilience of plant–pollinator networks

J Bascompte, M Scheffer - Annual Review of Entomology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
There is growing awareness of pollinator declines worldwide. Conservation efforts have
mainly focused on finding the direct causes, while paying less attention to building a …

[HTML][HTML] Nestedness in complex networks: observation, emergence, and implications

MS Mariani, ZM Ren, J Bascompte, CJ Tessone - Physics Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
The observed architecture of ecological and socio-economic networks differssignificantly
from that of random networks. From a network science standpoint, non-random structural …

Coexistence in diverse communities with higher-order interactions

T Gibbs, SA Levin, JM Levine - Proceedings of the National …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
A central assumption in most ecological models is that the interactions in a community
operate only between pairs of species. However, two species may interactively affect the …

Intraspecific variation in species interactions promotes the feasibility of mutualistic assemblages

B Arroyo‐Correa, P Jordano, I Bartomeus - Ecology Letters, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Patterns of resource use observed at the species level emerge from the way individuals
exploit the range of available resources. Hence, accounting for interindividual differences in …

A keystone gene underlies the persistence of an experimental food web

MA Barbour, DJ Kliebenstein, J Bascompte - Science, 2022 - science.org
Genes encode information that determines an organism's fitness. Yet we know little about
whether genes of one species influence the persistence of interacting species in an …

Experimental evidence of the importance of multitrophic structure for species persistence

I Bartomeus, S Saavedra, RP Rohr… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Ecological theory predicts that species interactions embedded in multitrophic networks
shape the opportunities for species to persist. However, the lack of experimental support of …

On the consequences of the interdependence of stabilizing and equalizing mechanisms

C Song, G Barabás, S Saavedra - The American Naturalist, 2019 - journals.uchicago.edu
We present an overlooked but important property of modern coexistence theory (MCT),
along with two key new results and their consequences. The overlooked property is that …

The assembly and dynamics of ecological communities in an ever‐changing world

O Godoy, F Soler‐Toscano, JR Portillo… - Ecological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Alternative perspectives on the maintenance of biodiversity and the assembly of ecological
communities suggest that both processes cannot be investigated simultaneously. In this …

Towards a probabilistic understanding about the context-dependency of species interactions

C Song, S Von Ahn, RP Rohr, S Saavedra - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2020 - cell.com
Observational and experimental studies have shown that an interaction class between two
species (be it mutualistic, competitive, antagonistic, or neutral) may switch to a different …

Structural asymmetry in biotic interactions as a tool to understand and predict ecological persistence

A Allen‐Perkins, D García‐Callejas… - Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A universal feature of ecological systems is that species do not interact with others with the
same sign and strength. Yet, the consequences of this asymmetry in biotic interactions for …