Our planet is changing at paces never observed before. Species extinction is happening at
faster rates than ever, greatly exceeding the five mass extinctions in the fossil record …

Network approaches to ecological questions have been increasingly used, particularly in
recent decades. The abstraction of ecological systems–such as communities–through …

Forty years ago, May proved, that sufficiently large or complex ecological networks have a
probability of persisting that is close to zero, contrary to previous expectations,,. May …

Ecological theory predicts that a complex community formed by a number of species is
inherently unstable, guiding ecologists to identify what maintains species diversity in nature …

Estimates of the total number of species that inhabit the Earth have increased significantly
since Linnaeus's initial catalog of 20,000 species. The best recent estimates suggest that …

Co‐occurrence methods are increasingly utilized in ecology to infer networks of species
interactions where detailed knowledge based on empirical studies is difficult to obtain. Their …

Rock is wrapped by paper, paper is cut by scissors and scissors are crushed by rock. This
simple game is popular among children and adults to decide on trivial disputes that have no …

In a context of global changes, and amidst the perpetual modification of community structure
undergone by most natural ecosystems, it is more important than ever to understand how …

Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 1170–1181 Abstract Interactions among species drive the
ecological and evolutionary processes in ecological communities. These interactions are …

Since the work of Robert May in 1972, the local asymptotic stability of large ecological
systems has been a focus of theoretical ecology. Here we review May's work in the light of …