Network approaches to ecological questions have been increasingly used, particularly in
recent decades. The abstraction of ecological systems–such as communities–through …

Summary 1 A fundamental goal of ecological network research is to understand how the
complexity observed in nature can persist and how this affects ecosystem functioning. This is …

Missing link prediction in networks is of both theoretical interest and practical significance in
modern science. In this paper, we empirically investigate a simple framework of link …

Most studies of plant–animal mutualisms involve a small number of species. There is almost
no information on the structural organization of species-rich mutualistic networks despite its …

Networks have in recent years emerged as an invaluable tool for describing and quantifying
complex systems in many branches of science,,. Recent studies suggest that networks often …

Food‐web structure mediates dramatic effects of biodiversity loss including secondary
andcascading'extinctions. We studied these effects by simulating primary species loss in 16 …

Networks from a wide range of physical, biological, and social systems have been recently
described as “small-world” and “scale-free.” However, studies disagree whether ecological …

Link prediction is a popular research area with important applications in a variety of
disciplines, including biology, social science, security, and medicine. The fundamental …

The problem of missing link prediction in complex networks has attracted much attention
recently. Two difficulties in link prediction are the sparsity and huge size of the target …

A variety of different social, natural and technological systems can be described by the same
mathematical framework. This holds from the Internet to food webs and to boards of …