ArticlePLoS biology2016
How Structured Is the Entangled Bank? The Surprisingly Simple Organization of Multiplex Ecological Networks Leads to Increased Persistence and Resilience.
Article in PLoS biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 47 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
47 citing papers in PubMed.
- Facilitative interspecific interactions in marine vertebrates across scales: from individuals to ecosystems.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Modeling and inferring metacommunity dynamics with Maximum Caliber.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Article
- Unifying microorganisms and macrograzers in intertidal rocky shore ecological networks.Ecology · 2026Article
- Mutualism provides a basis for biodiversity in eco-evolutionary community assembly.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Deciphering Probabilistic Species Interaction Networks.Ecology letters · 2025Review
- Embedding information flows within ecological networks.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- The impact of structured higher-order interactions on ecological network stability.Theoretical ecology · 2025Article
- Establishing complexity targets to enhance artificial reef designs.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Virus-host interactions predictor (VHIP): Machine learning approach to resolve microbial virus-host interaction networks.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
- The persistence of bipartite ecological communities with Lotka-Volterra dynamics.Journal of mathematical biology · 2024Article
- Article
- The structure and robustness of ecological networks with two interaction types.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
- Joint Latent Space Model for Social Networks with Multivariate Attributes.Psychometrika · 2023Article
- Monitoring the fabric of nature: using allometric trophic network models and observations to assess policy effects on biodiversity.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Article
- MultiCens: Multilayer network centrality measures to uncover molecular mediators of tissue-tissue communication.PLoS computational biology · 2023Article
- Scaling up our understanding of tipping points.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Review
- Stability-instability transition in tripartite merged ecological networks.Journal of mathematical biology · 2022Article
- Network analysis suggests changes in food web stability produced by bottom trawl fishery in Patagonia.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- A modified niche model for generating food webs with stage-structured consumers: The stabilizing effects of life-history stages on complex food webs.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Species are linked to each other by a myriad of positive and negative interactions. This complex spectrum of interactions constitutes a network of links that mediates ecological communities' response to perturbations, such as exploitation and climate change. In the last decades, there have been great advances in the study of intricate ecological networks. We have, nonetheless, lacked both the data and the tools to more rigorously understand the patterning of multiple interaction types between species (i.e., "multiplex networks"), as well as their consequences for community dynamics. Using network statistical modeling applied to a comprehensive ecological network, which includes trophic and diverse non-trophic links, we provide a first glimpse at what the full "entangled bank" of species looks like. The community exhibits clear multidimensional structure, which is taxonomically coherent and broadly predictable from species traits. Moreover, dynamic simulations suggest that this non-random patterning of how diverse non-trophic interactions map onto the food web could allow for higher species persistence and higher total biomass than expected by chance and tends to promote a higher robustness to extinctions.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.