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Asymmetric coevolutionary networks facilitate biodiversity maintenanceJordi Bascompte
Integrative Ecology Group, Estacion Biologica de Donana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Apartado 1056, E 41080 Sevilla, Spain
Science 312:431-3. 2006..By using a simple dynamical model, we showed that asymmetries inherent in coevolutionary networks may enhance long-term coexistence and facilitate biodiversity maintenance...- Aggregate statistical measures and metapopulation dynamicsJ Bascompte
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California at Santa Barbara, 735 State St Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 3351, U S A
J Theor Biol 209:373-9. 2001..I proceed by testing how well spatial complexities from a spatially explicit simulation can be encapsulated by such an aggregate statistical measure... - The assembly and disassembly of ecological networksJordi Bascompte
Integrative Ecology Group, Estacion Biologica de Donana, CSIC, c Americo Vespucio s n, 41080 Sevilla, Spain
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 364:1781-7. 2009..We conclude by emphasizing some general rules of thumb that can help in building a comprehensive framework to understand the responses of ecological networks to global change... - A probabilistic model of reserve designJordi Bascompte
Integrative Ecology Group, Estacion Biologica de Donana, CSIC Apdo 1056, E 41080 Sevilla, Spain
J Theor Biol 247:205-11. 2007..We proceed by numerically exploring the robustness of our analytic results when departing from the neutral assumption of identical colonization probabilities across species... - The more food webs change, the more they stay the sameKevin Shear McCann
Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 364:1789-801. 2009..We argue that the next major frontier in food-web theory and applied food-web ecology must consider the influence of variability on food-web structure... - Disentangling the web of lifeJordi Bascompte
Integrative Ecology Group, Estacion Biologica de Donana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Calle Américo Vespucio s n, E 41092 Sevilla, Spain
Science 325:416-9. 2009..Understanding how the responses of pairwise interactions scale to entire assemblages remains one of the great challenges that must be met as society faces global ecosystem change... - Interaction strength combinations and the overfishing of a marine food webJordi Bascompte
Integrative Ecology Group, Estacion Biologica de Donana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Apartado Postal 1056, E 41080 Seville, Spain
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 102:5443-7. 2005..However, fishing selectively removes predators that are overrepresented in strongly interacting chains. Hence, the potential for strong community-wide effects remains a threat... - The nested assembly of plant-animal mutualistic networksJordi Bascompte
Integrative Ecology Group, Estacion Biologica de Donana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Apartado 1056, E 41080 Sevilla, Spain
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:9383-7. 2003..Our results indicate a nonrandom pattern of community organization that may be relevant for our understanding of the organization and persistence of biodiversity... - Non-random coextinctions in phylogenetically structured mutualistic networksEnrico L Rezende
Integrative Ecology Group, Estacion Biologica de Donana, CSIC, Apdo 1056, E 41080 Sevilla, Spain
Nature 448:925-8. 2007..Our results emphasize how the simultaneous consideration of phylogenetic information and network architecture can contribute to our understanding of the structure and fate of species-rich communities... - Understanding food-web persistence from local to global scalesDaniel B Stouffer
Integrative Ecology Group, Estacion Biologica de Donana, CSIC, c Americo Vespucio s n, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
Ecol Lett 13:154-61. 2010..As a consequence, we demonstrate that there may be significant dynamic justifications for empirically-observed food-web structure... - Nestedness versus modularity in ecological networks: two sides of the same coin?Miguel A Fortuna
Integrative Ecology Group, Estacion Biologica de Donana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cieitificas, Calle Américo Vespucio s n, Seville, Spain
J Anim Ecol 79:811-7. 2010..6. A better understanding of the relationship between nestedness and modularity is important given their potential implications on the dynamics and stability of ecological communities... - The roosting spatial network of a bird-predator batMiguel A Fortuna
Integrative Ecology Group, Estacion Biologica de Donana, CSIC, Avenida M Luisa s n, 41013 Sevilla, Spain
Ecology 90:934-44. 2009..Network analysis can hence be applied to quantifying the conservation status of individual trees used by species depending on hollows for shelter... - Spatial mating networks in insect-pollinated plantsMiguel A Fortuna
Integrative Ecology Group, Estacion Biologica de Donana, CSIC, Apdo 1056, E 41080 Sevilla, Spain
Ecol Lett 11:490-8. 2008..This increases gene flow across the entire population, reducing its genetic structure, and potentially decreasing the role of genetic drift... - Spatial network structure and amphibian persistence in stochastic environmentsMiguel A Fortuna
Integrative Ecology Group, Estacion Biologica de Donana, CSIC, Apdo 1056, 41080 Seville, Spain
Proc Biol Sci 273:1429-34. 2006.... - Compartmentalization increases food-web persistenceDaniel B Stouffer
Integrative Ecology Group, Estacion Biologica de Donana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 41092 Seville, Spain
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 108:3648-52. 2011..This contribution to persistence is greater the more complex the food web, which helps to reconcile the simultaneous complexity and stability of natural communities... - Compartments in a marine food web associated with phylogeny, body mass, and habitat structureEnrico L Rezende
Integrative Ecology Group, Estacion Biologica de Donana, CSIC, Americo Vespucio s n, E 41092 Sevilla, Spain
Ecol Lett 12:779-88. 2009..Current overfishing of sharks has the potential to change the structural properties, which might eventually affect the stability of the food web... - Networks of spatial genetic variation across speciesMiguel A Fortuna
Integrative Ecology Group, Estacion Biologica de Donana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Americo Vespucio s n, 41092 Sevilla, Spain
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:19044-9. 2009..This variation creates a tremendous challenge for the prioritization of patches to conserve the genetic variation of multispecies assemblages... - The smallest of all worlds: pollination networksJens M Olesen
Department of Biology Ecology and Genetics, University of Aarhus, Ny Munkegade Block 1540, DK 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
J Theor Biol 240:270-6. 2006..Species in pollination networks are much more densely linked than species in traditional food webs, i.e. they have a higher density of links, a shorter distance between species, and species are more clustered... - Temporal dynamics in a pollination networkJens M Olesen
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Aarhus, Aarhus C, Denmark
Ecology 89:1573-82. 2008..Second, we looked for the ecological properties most likely to be mediating this dynamical process and found that both abundance and phenophase length were important determinants of the number of links per species... - Habitat loss and the structure of plant-animal mutualistic networksMiguel A Fortuna
Ecol Lett 9:281-6. 2006..There is a destruction threshold at which the community collapses. Our model is the first attempt to describe the dynamics of whole mutualistic metacommunities interacting in realistic ways... - 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... - Metapopulation models for extinction threshold in spatially correlated landscapesOtso Ovaskainen
Metapopulation Research Group, Department of Ecology and Systematics, Arkadiankatu 7, FIN 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
J Theor Biol 215:95-108. 2002.... - The modularity of pollination networksJens M Olesen
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Aarhus, Ny Munkegade Block 1540, DK 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:19891-6. 2007..If these key species go extinct, modules and networks may break apart and initiate cascades of extinction. Thus, species serving as hubs and connectors should receive high conservation priorities...