A great variety of systems in nature, society and technology–from the web of sexual contacts
to the Internet, from the nervous system to power grids–can be modeled as graphs of …

Agriculture is facing up to an increasing number of challenges, including the need to ensure
various ecosystem services and to resolve apparent conflicts between them. One of the …

Context As urbanization continues, ecosystem stability faces serious challenges. Ecological
security patterns have become a main tool with which the contradictions between economic …

The network perspective is rapidly becoming a lingua franca across virtually all of the
sciences from anthropology to physics. In this paper, we provide supply chain researchers …

This survey seeks to describe methods for measuring the entropy of graphs and to
demonstrate the wide applicability of entropy measures. Setting the scene with a review of …

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 …

Ever growing understanding of general ecological, biogeochemical and climatic processes
is allowing for the construction of a growing list of end-to-end models. While many of these …

Effective memory structures for relational data within R must be capable of representing a
wide range of data while keeping overhead to a minimum. The network package provides …

Ecological network analysis (ENA) is a systems-oriented methodology to analyze within
system interactions used to identify holistic properties that are otherwise not evident from the …

Background Ecological attributes estimated from food web models have the potential to be
indicators of good environmental status given their capabilities to describe redundancy, food …