Analysing ecological networks of species interactions

E Delmas, M Besson, MH Brice, LA Burkle… - Biological …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Network approaches to ecological questions have been increasingly used, particularly in
recent decades. The abstraction of ecological systems–such as communities–through …

The assembly and disassembly of ecological networks

J Bascompte, DB Stouffer - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2009 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Global change has created a severe biodiversity crisis. Species are driven extinct at an
increasing rate, and this has the potential to cause further coextinction cascades. The rate …

Evidence for the existence of a robust pattern of prey selection in food webs

DB Stouffer, J Camacho, W Jiang… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Food webs aim to provide a thorough representation of the trophic interactions found in an
ecosystem. The complexity of empirical food webs, however, is leading many ecologists to …

Origin of compartmentalization in food webs

R Guimerà, DB Stouffer, M Sales-Pardo, EA Leicht… - Ecology, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
The response of an ecosystem to perturbations is mediated by both antagonistic and
facilitative interactions between species. It is thought that a community's resilience depends …

Motifs in bipartite ecological networks: uncovering indirect interactions

BI Simmons, AR Cirtwill, NJ Baker, HS Wauchope… - Oikos, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Indirect interactions play an essential role in governing population, community and
coevolutionary dynamics across a diverse range of ecological communities. Such …

Understanding food‐web persistence from local to global scales

DB Stouffer, J Bascompte - Ecology letters, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology letters (2010) 13: 154–161 Abstract Understanding food‐web persistence is an
important long‐term objective of ecology because of its relevance in maintaining …

A new similarity measure for link prediction based on local structures in social networks

F Aghabozorgi, MR Khayyambashi - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Link prediction is a fundamental problem in social network analysis. There exist a variety of
techniques for link prediction which applies the similarity measures to estimate proximity of …

On the sensitivity of food webs to multiple stressors

D Beauchesne, K Cazelles, P Archambault… - Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Evaluating the effects of multiple stressors on ecosystems is becoming increasingly vital with
global changes. The role of species interactions in propagating the effects of stressors …

Selection on stability across ecological scales

JJ Borrelli, S Allesina, P Amarasekare, R Arditi… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2015 - cell.com
Much of the focus in evolutionary biology has been on the adaptive differentiation among
organisms. It is equally important to understand the processes that result in similarities of …

Ecological resilience of Arctic marine food webs to climate change

GP Griffith, H Hop, M Vihtakari, A Wold… - Nature Climate …, 2019 - nature.com
How real-world marine food webs absorb change, recover and adapt (that is, ecological
resilience) to climate change remains problematic. Here we apply a novel approach to show …