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

Recent advances in the ecology of food webs underscore the importance of detritus and
indirect predator–prey effects. However, most research considers detritus as an invariable …

Google's PageRank method was developed to evaluate the importance of web-pages via
their link structure. The mathematics of PageRank, however, are entirely general and apply …

Finding pertinent information is not limited to search engines. Online communities can
amplify the influence of a small number of power users for the benefit of all other users …

Human-driven threats are changing biodiversity, impacting ecosystem services. The loss of
one species can trigger secondary extinctions of additional species, because species …

Many complex systems can be described by networks, in which the constituent components
are represented by vertices and the connections between the components are represented …

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

A number of predictors have been suggested to detect the most influential spreaders of
information in online social media across various domains such as Twitter or Facebook. In …

Connectivity is a vital component of metapopulation and landscape ecology, influencing
fundamental processes such as population dynamics, evolution, and community responses …

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