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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2021

Network ecology in dynamic landscapes.

Marie-Josée Fortin, Mark R T Dale, Chris Brimacombe

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers.

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19 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Marie-Josée FortinEcology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Mark R T DaleEcosystem Science and Management, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George, British Columbia, Canada.
Chris BrimacombeEcology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Network ecology is an emerging field that allows researchers to conceptualize and analyse ecological networks and their dynamics. Here, we focus on the dynamics of ecological networks in response to environmental changes. Specifically, we formalize how network topologies constrain the dynamics of ecological systems into a unifying framework in network ecology that we refer to as the 'ecological network dynamics framework'. This framework stresses that the interplay between species interaction networks and the spatial layout of habitat patches is key to identifying which network properties (number and weights of nodes and links) and trade-offs among them are needed to maintain species interactions in dynamic landscapes. We conclude that to be functional, ecological networks should be scaled according to species dispersal abilities in response to landscape heterogeneity. Determining how such effective ecological networks change through space and time can help reveal their complex dynamics in a changing world.

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EcologyEcosystemecological network dynamics frameworkedge detectiongraphletmotifmultilayer networkspatio-temporal network

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PMID33906397
PMCPMC8080002

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