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The relationship between species replacement, dissimilarity derived from nestedness, and nestedness [PDF]
Global Ecology and Biogeography, 2012 ABSTRACTAim Beta diversity can be partitioned into two components: dissimilarity due to species replacement and dissimilarity due to nestedness (Baselga, 2010, Global Ecology and Biogeography, 19, 134–143). Several contributions have challenged this approach or proposed alternative frameworks.
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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
Jun Xu +6 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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Mutualism supports biodiversity when the direct competition is weak [PDF]
, 2016 A key question of theoretical ecology is which properties of ecosystems favour their stability and help maintaining biodiversity. This qu estion recently reconsid- ered mutualistic systems, generating intense controversy about the role of mutu- alistic ...
Pascual Garcia, A
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Differential temporal beta‐diversity patterns of native and non‐native arthropod species in a fragmented native forest landscape [PDF]
, 2018 An important factor that hinders the management of non‐native species is a general lack of information regarding the biogeography of non‐natives, and, in particular, their rates of turnover.
Borges, Paulo A. V. +4 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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Community Assembly Reveals How Environmental Controls Over Rodent Competition Drive Deer Mouse Density and Hantavirus Infection [PDF]
Ecol LettWe examined how community assembly processes shape Sin Nombre hantavirus (SNV) dynamics in rodent communities across the southwestern United States. Environmental factors structured community composition, which regulated deer mouse abundance and SNV infection, rather than diversity alone.
Luis A, Pearson D.
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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.
Nicholas Britton +2 more
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Randomizing bipartite networks: the case of the World Trade Web [PDF]
, 2015 Within the last fifteen years, network theory has been successfully applied both to natural sciences and to socioeconomic disciplines. In particular, bipartite networks have been recognized to provide a particularly insightful representation of many ...
Di Clemente, Riccardo +3 more
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Ecological networks, nestedness and sampling effort [PDF]
Journal of Ecology, 2007 1. Ecological networks have been shown to display a nested structure. To be nested, a network must consist of a core group of generalists all interacting with each other, and with extreme specialists interacting only with generalist species. 2. Studies on ecological networks are especially prone to sampling effects, as they involve entire ...
Nielsen, Anders, Bascompte, Jordi
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