ReviewScience advances2023
Toward a cohesive understanding of ecological complexity.
Review in Science advances, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Interaction matrices as unifying tools for navigating ecological complexity.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Review
- Enhancing the understanding of environmental microbiomes through topic modeling: a quantitative and qualitative analysis.Environmental microbiome · 2026Article
- Diagrams-to-Dynamics (D2D): Exploring causal loop diagram leverage points under uncertainty.BMC medicine · 2026Article
- Navigating complexity: key considerations for studying fungal-bacterial interactions.mSystems · 2026Article
- Dissimilarity measures for generalized Lotka-Volterra systems on networks.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Eco-Inspired terraform networks emerge from material self-organization.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- A molecular specimen bank for contemporary and future study captures landscape-scale biodiversity baselines before Klamath River dam removal.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Baselining Urban Ecosystems from Sentinel Species: Fitness, Flows, and Sinks.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Temporal Variation in Bacterial Community Characteristics Shaped by Habitat in a Reservoir Buffer Strip in China.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Quantifying the configurational complexity of biological systems in multivariate 'complexity space'.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
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Abstract
Ecological systems are quintessentially complex systems. Understanding and being able to predict phenomena typical of complex systems is, therefore, critical to progress in ecology and conservation amidst escalating global environmental change. However, myriad definitions of complexity and excessive reliance on conventional scientific approaches hamper conceptual advances and synthesis. Ecological complexity may be better understood by following the solid theoretical basis of complex system science (CSS). We review features of ecological systems described within CSS and conduct bibliometric and text mining analyses to characterize articles that refer to ecological complexity. Our analyses demonstrate that the study of complexity in ecology is a highly heterogeneous, global endeavor that is only weakly related to CSS. Current research trends are typically organized around basic theory, scaling, and macroecology. We leverage our review and the generalities identified in our analyses to suggest a more coherent and cohesive way forward in the study of complexity in ecology.
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