Brains comprise complex networks of neurons and connections, similar to the nodes and
edges of artificial networks. Network analysis applied to the wiring diagrams of brains can …

Ecosystems represent archetypal complex dynamical systems, often modelled by coupled
differential equations of the form dxidt= xi ϕ i (x 1,…, x N), where N represents the number of …

Forest management by thinning can mitigate the detrimental impact of increasing drought
caused by global warming. Growing evidence shows that the soil microbiota can coordinate …

Complex systems must respond to external perturbations and, at the same time, internally
distribute information to coordinate their components. Although networked backbones help …

Nonlinear independent component analysis (ICA) aims to recover the underlying
independent latent sources from their observable nonlinear mixtures. How to make the …

Material flows—such as food trade—allow human societies to rely on natural resources
available both locally and in other regions of the planet. Thus, in a globalized world, multiple …

During the last decades, macroecology has identified broad-scale patterns of abundances
and diversity of microbial communities and put forward some potential explanations for …

The promise of big data is enormous and nowhere is it more critical than in its potential to
contain important, undiscovered interdependence among thousands of variables. Networks …

The network density matrix formalism allows for describing the dynamics of information on
top of complex structures and it has been successfully used to analyze, eg, a system's …

Phenotypic plasticity represents a capacity by which the organism changes its phenotypes in
response to environmental stimuli. Despite its pivotal role in adaptive evolution, how …