A Critical Evaluation of Network Approaches for Studying Species Interactions

N Blüthgen, M Staab - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Ecological networks of species interactions are popular and provide powerful analytical
tools for understanding variation in community structure and ecosystem functioning …

A roadmap towards predicting species interaction networks (across space and time)

T Strydom, MD Catchen, F Banville… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Networks of species interactions underpin numerous ecosystem processes, but
comprehensively sampling these interactions is difficult. Interactions intrinsically vary across …

Forecasting parasite sharing under climate change

I Morales-Castilla, P Pappalardo… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Species are shifting their distributions in response to climate change. This geographic
reshuffling may result in novel co-occurrences among species, which could lead to unseen …

Complex systems in ecology: a guided tour with large Lotka–Volterra models and random matrices

I Akjouj, M Barbier, M Clenet… - … of the Royal …, 2024 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Ecosystems represent archetypal complex dynamical systems, often modelled by coupled
differential equations of the form dxidt= xi ϕ i (x 1,…, x N), where N represents the number of …

Stable pollination service in a generalist high Arctic community despite the warming climate

AR Cirtwill, R Kaartinen, C Rasmussen… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Insects provide key pollination services in most terrestrial biomes, but this service depends
on a multistep interaction between insect and plant. An insect needs to visit a flower, receive …

Food web reconstruction through phylogenetic transfer of low‐rank network representation

T Strydom, S Bouskila, F Banville… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Despite their importance in many ecological processes, collecting data and information on
ecological interactions is an exceedingly challenging task. For this reason, large parts of the …

Reconstruction of plant–pollinator networks from observational data

JG Young, FS Valdovinos, MEJ Newman - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Empirical measurements of ecological networks such as food webs and mutualistic networks
are often rich in structure but also noisy and error-prone, particularly for rare species for …

Using individual‐based trait frequency distributions to forecast plant‐pollinator network responses to environmental change

A Cantwell‐Jones, JM Tylianakis, K Larson… - Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Determining how and why organisms interact is fundamental to understanding ecosystem
responses to future environmental change. To assess the impact on plant‐pollinator …

For flux's sake: General considerations for energy‐flux calculations in ecological communities

M Jochum, AD Barnes, U Brose… - Ecology and …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Global change alters ecological communities with consequences for ecosystem processes.
Such processes and functions are a central aspect of ecological research and vital to …

Stable generalist species anchor a dynamic pollination network

K Zografou, MT Swartz, VP Tilden, EN McKinney… - …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The application of complex network theory to community ecology has enabled quantification
of interactions among large suites of species and clarified patterns of community structure …