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| Paulo R GuimarãesSummaryAffiliation: Universidade Estadual de Campinas Country: Brazil Publications
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Build-up mechanisms determining the topology of mutualistic networksPaulo R Guimarães
Programa de Pos Graduacao em Ecologia, Insituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas 6109, 13083 970 Campinas, SP, Brazil
J Theor Biol 249:181-9. 2007..Our results provide a simple interpretation for the truncations commonly observed in the degree distributions of mutualistic networks that complements previous ones based on biological effects...
Interaction intimacy affects structure and coevolutionary dynamics in mutualistic networksPaulo R Guimarães
Instituto de Fisica Gleb Wataghin, Universidade Estadual de Campinas 6165, Campinas Sao Paulo, 13083 970, Brazil
Curr Biol 17:1797-803. 2007....
Vulnerability of a killer whale social network to disease outbreaksPaulo R Guimarães
Departamento de Física da Matéria Condensada, Instituto de Fisica Gleb Wataghin, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, 6165, 13083 970, Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys 76:042901. 2007..Our results uncover a serious challenge for conservation of the species and its ecosystem. In addition, this study shows that the network approach can be useful to study dynamical processes in very small networks...
Network analysis reveals contrasting effects of intraspecific competition on individual vs. population dietsMárcio S Araújo
Departamento de Parasitologia, Programa de Pos Graduacao em Ecologia, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, CP 6109, 13083 970, Campinas, SP, Brazil
Ecology 89:1981-93. 2008....
Seed dispersal anachronisms: rethinking the fruits extinct megafauna atePaulo R Guimarães
Departamento de Física da Matéria Condensada, Instituto de Fisica Gleb Wataghin, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brazil
PLoS ONE 3:e1745. 2008..Anachronic dispersal systems are best explained by interactions with extinct animals and show impaired dispersal resulting in altered seed dispersal dynamics...
The nested structure of marine cleaning symbiosis: is it like flowers and bees?Paulo R Guimarães
Instituto de Biologia, UNICAMRP 13083 970 Campinas, SP, Brazil
Biol Lett 3:51-4. 2007..Our results support the notion that mutualisms evolve to a predictable community-level structure, be it in terrestrial or marine communities...
Cheaters in mutualism networksJulieta Genini
Departamento de Botanica, Instituto de Biociencias, Unesp Univ Estadual Paulista, Rio Claro, SP, Brazil
Biol Lett 6:494-7. 2010..In contrast, removal of cheaters broke down the modularity of the Bignoniaceae network. As cheaters are ubiquitous in all mutualisms, the results presented here show that they have a strong impact upon network topology...
Interaction intimacy organizes networks of antagonistic interactions in different waysMathias M Pires
Departamento de Ecologia, Instituto de Biociencias, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
J R Soc Interface 10:20120649. 2013..Our results indicate the key role of interaction intimacy in organizing antagonisms, suggesting that greater interaction intimacy might be associated with greater complexity in the assembly rules shaping ecological networks...
Do food web models reproduce the structure of mutualistic networks?Mathias M Pires
Programa de Pos Graduacao em Ecologia, Instituto de Biociencias, Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
PLoS ONE 6:e27280. 2011....
