ArticleEcology and evolution2018
Rethinking the importance of the structure of ecological networks under an environment-dependent framework.
Article in Ecology and evolution, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Estimating the risk of species interaction loss in mutualistic communities.PLoS biology · 2020Article
- Telling ecological networks apart by their structure: An environment-dependent approach.PLoS computational biology · 2020Article
- Using social network analysis of mixed-species groups in African savannah herbivores to assess how community structure responds to environmental change.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2019Article
- Rethinking the importance of the structure of ecological networks under an environment-dependent framework.Ecology and evolution · 2018Article
- Structural stability as a consistent predictor of phenological events.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2018Article
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Abstract
A major quest in network and community ecology has been centered on understanding the importance of structural patterns in species interaction networks-the synthesis of who interacts with whom in a given location and time. In the past decades, much effort has been devoted to infer the importance of a particular structure by its capacity to tolerate an external perturbation on its structure or dynamics. Here, we demonstrate that such a perspective leads to inconsistent conclusions. That is, the importance of a network structure changes as a function of the external perturbations acting on a community at any given point in time. Thus, we discuss a research agenda to investigate the relative importance of the structure of ecological networks under an environment-dependent framework. We hypothesize that only by studying systematically the link between network structure and community dynamics under an environment-dependent framework, we can uncover the limits at which communities can tolerate environmental changes.
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