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Nestedness across biological scales. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Biological networks pervade nature. They describe systems throughout all levels of biological organization, from molecules regulating metabolism to species interactions that shape ecosystem dynamics. The network thinking revealed recurrent organizational
Mauricio Cantor +12 more
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Patterns and drivers of Nothobranchius killifish diversity in lowland Tanzania
Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Temporary pools are seasonal wetland habitats with specifically adapted biota, including annual Nothobranchius killifishes that survive habitat desiccation as diapausing eggs encased in dry sediment.
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Ecological Indicators, 2022 Although biodiversity has been shown to profoundly affect ecosystem function in forests, the processes which it impacts are limited understood. Various plant species with diverse sizes interact to form complex networks to complete resource use processes,
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Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Nitrogen (N) deposition poses a serious threat to terrestrial biodiversity and alters plant and soil microbial community composition. Species turnover and nestedness reflect the underlying mechanisms of variations in community composition.
Weixing Liu +6 more
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Global Ecology and Conservation, 2015 Metacommunity nestedness can be affected by both idiosyncratic species and species turnover, and diversity partitioning allows one to separate turnover and nested components within β-diversity. Thus, complimentary analysis of metacommunity nestedness and
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The dynamics of nestedness predicts the evolution of industrial ecosystems. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 In economic systems, the mix of products that countries make or export has been shown to be a strong leading indicator of economic growth. Hence, methods to characterize and predict the structure of the network connecting countries to the products that ...
Sebastián Bustos +3 more
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Measuring nestedness: A comparative study of the performance of different metrics
Ecology and Evolution, 2020 Nestedness is a property of interaction networks widely observed in natural mutualistic communities, among other systems. A perfectly nested network is characterized by the peculiarity that the interactions of any node form a subset of the interactions ...
Clàudia Payrató‐Borràs +2 more
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Human Impacts and Climate Change Influence Nestedness and Modularity in Food-Web and Mutualistic Networks. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 Theoretical studies have indicated that nestedness and modularity-non-random structural patterns of ecological networks-influence the stability of ecosystems against perturbations; as such, climate change and human activity, as well as other sources of ...
Kazuhiro Takemoto, Kosuke Kajihara
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Food Web Topology and Nested Keystone Species Complexes
Complexity, 2018 Important species may be in critically central network positions in ecological interaction networks. Beyond quantifying which one is the most central species in a food web, a multinode approach can identify the key sets of the most central n species as ...
Daniele Capocefalo +3 more
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Biomath, 2016 Nestedness is a concept employed to describe a particular pattern of organization in species interaction networks and in site-by-species incidence matrices.
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