Complexity and stability of ecological networks: a review of the theory

Modelling coevolution in ecological networks with adaptive dynamics

(2017) Cang Hui et al.   MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN THE APPLIED SCIENCES

Co-introduction vs ecological fitting as pathways to the establishment of effective mutualisms during biological invasions

(2017) Johannes J. Le Roux et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

The multilayer nature of ecological networks

(2017) Shai Pilosof et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Robustness of rigid and adaptive networks to species loss

(2017) Savannah Nuwagaba et al.   PLoS One

Characterizing Species Interactions to Understand Press Perturbations: What Is the Community Matrix?

(2016) Mark Novak et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Defining invasiveness and invasibility in ecological networks

(2016) Cang Hui et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Food web stability and weighted connectance: the complexity-stability debate revisited

(2016) Cassandra van Altena et al.   Theoretical Ecology

Stability and complexity in model meta-ecosystems

(2016) Dominique Gravel et al.   Nature Communications

No complexity–stability relationship in empirical ecosystems

(2016) Claire Jacquet et al.   Nature Communications

Environmental change makes robust ecological networks fragile

(2016) Giovanni Strona et al.   Nature Communications

Modularity and stability in ecological communities

(2016) Jacopo Grilli et al.   Nature Communications

Food-web complexity, meta-community complexity and community stability

(2016) A. Mougi et al.   Scientific Reports

Stability of an adaptive hybrid community

(2016) A. Mougi   Scientific Reports

The roles of amensalistic and commensalistic interactions in large ecological network stability

(2016) Akihiko Mougi   Scientific Reports

Trait-mediated interaction leads to structural emergence in mutualistic networks

(2015) H. O. Minoarivelo et al.   EVOLUTIONARY ECOLOGY

Fisheries-induced disruptive selection

(2015) Pietro Landi et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

The stability–complexity relationship at age 40: a random matrix perspective

(2015) Stefano Allesina et al.   POPULATION ECOLOGY

Multi-faceted approaches toward unravelling complex ecological networks

(2015) Toshiyuki Namba   POPULATION ECOLOGY

A hybrid behavioural rule of adaptation and drift explains the emergent architecture of antagonistic networks

(2015) S. Nuwagaba et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Selection on stability across ecological scales

(2015) Jonathan J. Borrelli et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Effect of localization on the stability of mutualistic ecological networks

(2015) Samir Suweis et al.   Nature Communications

Predicting the stability of large structured food webs

(2015) Stefano Allesina et al.   Nature Communications

A simple stochastic model for complex coextinctions in mutualistic networks: robustness decreases with connectance

(2014) Marcos Costa Vieira et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Stability of competition–antagonism–mutualism hybrid community and the role of community network structure

(2014) Akihiko Mougi et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Detecting phylogenetic signal in mutualistic interaction networks using a Markov process model

(2014) H. O. Minoarivelo et al.   OIKOS

Species traits and abundances predict metrics of plant-pollinator network structure, but not pairwise interactions

(2014) Colin Olito et al.   OIKOS

Community analysis in directed networks: In-, out-, and pseudocommunities

(2014) Pietro Landi et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

On the structural stability of mutualistic systems

(2014) R. P. Rohr et al.   SCIENCE

Heterogeneity in ecological mutualistic networks dominantly determines community stability

(2014) Wenfeng Feng et al.   Scientific Reports

When is an ecological network complex? Connectance drives degree distribution and emerging network properties

(2014) Timothée Poisot et al.   PeerJ

On the dimensionality of ecological stability

(2013) Ian Donohue et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The dimensionality of ecological networks

(2013) Anna Eklöf et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Biodiversity and ecosystem stability: a synthesis of underlying mechanisms

(2013) Michel Loreau et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Adaptive foraging behaviour of individual pollinators and the coexistence of co-flowering plants

(2013) Z. Song et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Branching Scenarios in Eco-evolutionary Prey-Predator Models

(2013) Pietro Landi et al.   SIAM JOURNAL ON APPLIED MATHEMATICS

Stability of modular structure in temporal cumulative plant–flower-visitor networks

(2012) Yoko L. Dupont et al.   Ecological Complexity

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

(2012) Lotta Heckmann et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

ADAPTIVE DIVERGENCE IN DARWIN'S RACE: HOW COEVOLUTION CAN GENERATE TRAIT DIVERSITY IN A POLLINATION SYSTEM

(2012) Feng Zhang et al.   EVOLUTION

Topological plasticity increases robustness of mutualistic networks

(2012) Rodrigo Ramos-Jiliberto et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

Stability criteria for complex ecosystems

(2012) Stefano Allesina et al.   NATURE

Disentangling nestedness from models of ecological complexity

(2012) Alex James et al.   NATURE

Adaptive foraging allows the maintenance of biodiversity of pollination networks

(2012) Fernanda S. Valdovinos et al.   OIKOS

Topology of plant-pollinator networks that are vulnerable to collapse from species extinction

(2012) Colin Campbell et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Diversity of Interaction Types and Ecological Community Stability

(2012) A. Mougi et al.   SCIENCE

Connectance of species interaction networks and conservation value: Is it any good to be well connected?

(2011) Ruben Heleno et al.   ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS

An interaction switch predicts the nested architecture of mutualistic networks

(2011) Feng Zhang et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The ecological and evolutionary implications of merging different types of networks

(2011) Colin Fontaine et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Adaptive behaviour, tri-trophic food-web stability and damping of chaos

(2011) A. W. Visser et al.   Journal of the Royal Society Interface

The modularity of seed dispersal: differences in structure and robustness between bat– and bird–fruit networks

(2011) Marco Aurelio Ribeiro Mello et al.   OECOLOGIA

Compartmentalization increases food-web persistence

(2011) Daniel B. Stouffer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Consequences of adaptive behaviour for the structure and dynamics of food webs

(2010) Fernanda S. Valdovinos et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

(2010) E. Thebault et al.   SCIENCE

Emergence and maintenance of biodiversity in an evolutionary food-web model

(2010) Åke Brännström et al.   Theoretical Ecology

Niche Evolution, Trophic Structure, and Species Turnover in Model Food Webs

(2009) Travis Ingram et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Conservation of species interaction networks

(2009) Jason M. Tylianakis et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Complexity in quantitative food webs

(2009) Carolin Banašek-Richter et al.   ECOLOGY

Increasing community size and connectance can increase stability in competitive communities

(2009) Mike S. Fowler   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

The architecture of mutualistic networks minimizes competition and increases biodiversity

(2009) Ugo Bastolla et al.   NATURE

Cascading extinctions and community collapse in model food webs

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

Generalized Models Reveal Stabilizing Factors in Food Webs

(2009) T. Gross et al.   SCIENCE

Network structural properties mediate the stability of mutualistic communities

(2008) Toshinori Okuyama et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Complexity does not affect stability in feasible model communities

(2008) Maria Christianou et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

A consistent metric for nestedness analysis in ecological systems: reconciling concept and measurement

(2008) Mário Almeida-Neto et al.   OIKOS

Tolerance traits and the stability of mutualism

(2008) Tom H. Oliver et al.   OIKOS

Diversity in a complex ecological network with two interaction types

(2008) Carlos J. Melián et al.   OIKOS

Do mutualistic networks follow power distributions?

(2007) Toshinori Okuyama   Ecological Complexity