The multilayer nature of ecological networks

S Pilosof, MA Porter, M Pascual, S Kéfi - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2017 - nature.com
Although networks provide a powerful approach to study a large variety of ecological
systems, their formulation does not typically account for multiple interaction types …

Identifying causes of patterns in ecological networks: opportunities and limitations

CF Dormann, J Fründ… - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Ecological networks depict the interactions between species, mainly based on observations
in the field. The information contained in such interaction matrices depends on the sampling …

Land-use intensity alters networks between biodiversity, ecosystem functions, and services

MR Felipe-Lucia, S Soliveres… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Land-use intensification can increase provisioning ecosystem services, such as food and
timber production, but it also drives changes in ecosystem functioning and biodiversity loss …

Improved community detection in weighted bipartite networks

SJ Beckett - Royal Society open science, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Real-world complex networks are composed of non-random quantitative interactions.
Identifying communities of nodes that tend to interact more with each other than the network …

A method for detecting modules in quantitative bipartite networks

CF Dormann, R Strauss - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Ecological networks are often composed of different subcommunities (often referred to as
modules). Identifying such modules has the potential to develop a better understanding of …

Rats and the city: Implications of urbanization on zoonotic disease risk in Southeast Asia

KR Blasdell, S Morand… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Urbanization is rapidly transforming much of Southeast Asia, altering the structure and
function of the landscape, as well as the frequency and intensity of the interactions between …

phyloregion: R package for biogeographical regionalization and macroecology

BH Daru, P Karunarathne… - Methods in Ecology and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Biogeographical regionalization is the classification of regions in terms of their biota and is
key to our understanding of the ecological and historical drivers affecting species distribution …

Morphology predicts species' functional roles and their degree of specialization in plant–frugivore interactions

DM Dehling, P Jordano… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Species' functional roles in key ecosystem processes such as predation, pollination or seed
dispersal are determined by the resource use of consumer species. An interaction between …

Ecological, historical and evolutionary determinants of modularity in weighted seed‐dispersal networks

M Schleuning, L Ingmann, R Strauss, SA Fritz… - Ecology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Modularity is a recurrent and important property of bipartite ecological networks. Although
well‐resolved ecological networks describe interaction frequencies between species pairs …

MODULAR: software for the autonomous computation of modularity in large network sets

FMD Marquitti, PR Guimaraes Jr, MM Pires… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Many ecological systems can be represented as networks of interactions. A key feature in
these networks is their organization into modules, which are subsets of tightly connected …