Tag: ecological networks

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Predicting What Extinctions Could Mean for Lemurs and the Forests They Call Home

This blog post is provided by James Herrera and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper “Drivers and Consequences of Structure in Plant–Lemur Ecological Networks“, which was recently published in Journal of Animal Ecology. In their study the authors explore how lemurs and plants are interconnected in ecological networks, and the impacts of plant or lemur extinctions on these networks. This post was originally posted on … Continue reading Predicting What Extinctions Could Mean for Lemurs and the Forests They Call Home

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El tamaño si importa: ¿Como afectan los rasgos el rol de los peces depredadores en las tramas tróficas y redes espaciales en el Río Paraná Medio?

Este posteo fue proporcionado por Dalmiro Borzone Mas y Pablo Scarabotti y nos cuenta #StoryBehindthePaper para el trabajo “Simetrías y asimetrías en los roles topológicos de los peces depredadores entre las redes de ocurrencia y las tramas tróficas” el cual fue recientemente publicado en el Journal of Animal Ecology. En este estudio ellos exploran como las redes de ocurrencia y las tramas tróficas tienen una … Continue reading El tamaño si importa: ¿Como afectan los rasgos el rol de los peces depredadores en las tramas tróficas y redes espaciales en el Río Paraná Medio?

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#StoryBehindThePaper, Guest post

Size does matter: how do traits affect the role of predatory fish on food webs and spatial networks in the middle Paraná River?

This blog post is provided by Dalmiro Borzone Mas and Pablo Scarabotti and tells the #StoryBehindthePaper for the paper “Symmetries and asymmetries in the topological roles of piscivorous fishes between occurrence networks and food webs“, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. In their study, they explore whether occurrence networks and food webs of the Paraná River have a modular structure and … Continue reading Size does matter: how do traits affect the role of predatory fish on food webs and spatial networks in the middle Paraná River?

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Finding out when rare and common species change their interactions using multi-site interaction turnover

This blog post is provided by Marie V. Henriksen and tells the #StoryBehindThePaper for the paper “A multi-site method to capture turnover in rare to common interactions in bipartite species networks”, which was recently published in the Journal of Animal Ecology. In ecological networks, species are linked by their interactions to form complex interaction networks. How species interact in these networks reveals what role they … Continue reading Finding out when rare and common species change their interactions using multi-site interaction turnover

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Open Call for Papers: Joint Special Feature on ecological resilience

Resilience has emerged as a key concept in ecology and conservation biology to understand and predict ecosystem responses to global change. In its broadest and original sense, resilience describes the ability of an ecosystem to resist, and recover from, a disturbance. However, the application of such a concept in different sub-disciplines of ecology and in different study systems has resulted in a wide disparity of … Continue reading Open Call for Papers: Joint Special Feature on ecological resilience

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Do spatial sampling scales influence the understanding of ant-plant interaction network architecture?

Despite great interest in metrics to quantify the structure of ecological networks, the effects of sampling and scale remain poorly understood. However, a recent paper published in Journal of Animal Ecology seeks to change this! Lead author Dr Wesley Dáttilo (Instituto de Ecologia, Mexico) explains how studying ant-plant interaction networks helped develop a better understanding of spatial sampling scales. We know that no single species … Continue reading Do spatial sampling scales influence the understanding of ant-plant interaction network architecture?

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