Multi-faceted approaches toward unravelling complex ecological networks

Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning

(2014) David Tilman et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Correlation between interaction strengths drives stability in large ecological networks

(2014) Si Tang et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Unravelling the complex structure of forest soil food webs: higher omnivory and more trophic levels

(2014) Christoph Digel et al.   OIKOS

Diversity and Spatial Structure of Belowground Plant–Fungal Symbiosis in a Mixed Subtropical Forest of Ectomycorrhizal and Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Plants

(2014) Hirokazu Toju et al.   PLoS One

Assembly of complex plant–fungus networks

(2014) Hirokazu Toju et al.   Nature Communications

Body masses, functional responses and predator-prey stability

(2013) Gregor Kalinkat et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Structure-stability relationships in networks combining mutualistic and antagonistic interactions

(2013) Alix M. C. Sauve et al.   OIKOS

Disentangling the effect of hybrid interactions and of the constant effort hypothesis on ecological community stability

(2013) Samir Suweis et al.   OIKOS

Sharing of Diverse Mycorrhizal and Root-Endophytic Fungi among Plant Species in an Oak-Dominated Cool–Temperate Forest

(2013) Hirokazu Toju et al.   PLoS One

How are plant and fungal communities linked to each other in belowground ecosystems? A massively parallel pyrosequencing analysis of the association specificity of root-associated fungi and their host plants

(2013) Hirokazu Toju et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Community composition of root-associated fungi in aQuercus-dominated temperate forest: “codominance” of mycorrhizal and root-endophytic fungi

(2013) Hirokazu Toju et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Parasites Affect Food Web Structure Primarily through Increased Diversity and Complexity

(2013) Jennifer A. Dunne et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Interactive effects of body-size structure and adaptive foraging on food-web stability

(2012) Lotta Heckmann et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

More than a meal… integrating non-feeding interactions into food webs

(2012) Sonia Kéfi et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Stability criteria for complex ecosystems

(2012) Stefano Allesina et al.   NATURE

Diversity of Interaction Types and Ecological Community Stability

(2012) A. Mougi et al.   SCIENCE

The ecological and evolutionary implications of merging different types of networks

(2011) Colin Fontaine et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The reduction of food web robustness by parasitism: Fact and artefact

(2011) Hsuan-Wien Chen et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY

The role of body mass in diet contiguity and food-web structure

(2011) Daniel B. Stouffer et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Random matrices: Universality of ESDs and the circular law

(2010) Terence Tao et al.   ANNALS OF PROBABILITY

Stage structure alters how complexity affects stability of ecological networks

(2010) V. H. W. Rudolf et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Food webs: Ordering species according to body size yields high degree of intervality

(2010) Alexander E. Zook et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Stability of Ecological Communities and the Architecture of Mutualistic and Trophic Networks

(2010) E. Thebault et al.   SCIENCE

Food web topology and parasites in the pelagic zone of a subarctic lake

(2009) Per-Arne Amundsen et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

The architecture of mutualistic networks minimizes competition and increases biodiversity

(2009) Ugo Bastolla et al.   NATURE

Parasites reduce food web robustness because they are sensitive to secondary extinction as illustrated by an invasive estuarine snail

(2009) K. D. Lafferty et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Cascading extinctions and community collapse in model food webs

(2009) J. A. Dunne et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Are insect pollinators more generalist than insect herbivores?

(2009) C. Fontaine et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Disentangling the Web of Life

(2009) Jordi Bascompte   SCIENCE

Omnivory and stability of food webs

(2008) Toshiyuki Namba et al.   Ecological Complexity

Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links

(2008) Kevin D. Lafferty et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Network structural properties mediate the stability of mutualistic communities

(2008) Toshinori Okuyama et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The unseen majority: soil microbes as drivers of plant diversity and productivity in terrestrial ecosystems

(2008) Marcel G. A. van der Heijden et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Review: Ecological networks - beyond food webs

(2008) Thomas C. Ings et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Ecosystem energetic implications of parasite and free-living biomass in three estuaries

(2008) Armand M. Kuris et al.   NATURE

Does asymmetric specialization differ between mutualistic and trophic networks?

(2008) Elisa Thébault et al.   OIKOS

Diversity in a complex ecological network with two interaction types

(2008) Carlos J. Melián et al.   OIKOS

Rank abundance relations in evolutionary dynamics of random replicators

(2008) Yoshimi Yoshino et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Building trophic modules into a persistent food web

(2008) M. Kondoh   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Homage to Linnaeus: How many parasites? How many hosts?

(2008) A. Dobson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA