Most studies of plant–animal mutualisms involve a small number of species. There is almost
no information on the structural organization of species-rich mutualistic networks despite its …

The stability of ecological communities largely depends on the strength of interactions
between predators and their prey. Here we show that these interaction strengths are structured …

The strength of interactions among species in a network tends to be highly asymmetric. We
evaluate the hypothesis that this asymmetry results from the distribution of abundance among …

Most studies on ecological networks consider only a single interaction type (eg competitive,
predatory or mutualistic), and try to developrules for system stability based exclusively on …

There are two common approaches to food webs. On the one hand, empirical studies have
described aggregate statistical measures of many‐species food webs. On the other hand, …

… One such modelling attempt by Melián et al. (2018) links ecological and evolutionary
networks in a meta-ecosystem model, taking into account demography, trait evolution, gene flow …

The Cretaceous breakup of Gondwana strongly modified the global distribution of shallow
tropical seas reshaping the geographic configuration of marine basins. However, the links …

Ecological network patterns are influenced by diverse processes that operate at different
temporal rates. Here we analyzed whether the coupled effect of local abundance variation, …

For the past 20 years, research on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (B-EF) has only
implicitly considered the underlying role of environmental change. We illustrate that explicitly …

In this paper we explore simple food web models to study how metacommunity structure
affects species response to habitat loss. We find that patch abundances and extinction …