Why network analysis is often disconnected from community ecology: A critique and an ecologist's guide

By N. Blüthgen. 2010

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Resolving Food-Web Structure (2020, methodology): “Sampling intensity is a problem regardless of the methods used to infer links (Blüthgen 2010, Fründ et al. 2016, Jordano 2016) (Figure 2).”
Global patterns of mainland and insular pollination networks (2016, background): “with their resilience to disturbances, such as species loss (Bascompte et al., 2006; Blüthgen, 2010).”
The macroecology of phylogenetically structured hummingbird–plant networks (2015, background): “…levels of complementary specialization have been linked to higher dependences between species and, hence, to a higher risk of secondary extinctions (Blüthgen, 2010); whereas high levels of modularity may at first provide higher network resilience to perturbations, as these are not typically spread…”
Global patterns of interaction specialization in bird–flower networks (2017, background): “…of ecological specialization (sensu Ollerton et al., 2007) and the realized Eltonian niche (Devictor et al., 2010), where interactions are treated as one dimension of the ecological niche and the degree of interaction specialization represents niche partitioning among species (Bl€uthgen, 2010).”
Functional structure and specialization in three tropical plant-hummingbird interaction networks across an elevational gradient in Costa Rica (2015, background): “This index compares the observed frequency distribution of interactions with an expected probability distribution and thus estimates the degree of complementary specialization (i.e. niche partitioning) (Blüthgen et al. 2008, Blüthgen 2010).”
Connectance of species interaction networks and conservation value: Is it any good to be well connected? (2012, background): “We believe that descriptors of species interaction networks 132 clearly have an important role to play in guiding conservation efforts and their use should be 133 encouraged However, while ecologists are developing increasingly robust measures of network 134 complexity and network robustness (Blüthg”
Sampling networks of ecological interactions (2015, background): “We might expect increased power of these mixed sampling approaches when combining different methods from both phyto- and zoo-centric perspectives (Bosch et al., 2009; Blüthgen, 2010).”
The restoration of tropical seed dispersal networks (2015, neutral): “H2′ is a network-level measure of differentiation that describes the exclusiveness of interactions within the network considering the species degree (i.e. how connected a species is) and how these interactions differ among species (Blüthgen & Klein 2010).”
How to be a specialist? Quantifying specialisation in pollination networks (2011, neutral): “While 1 and 2 are impossible to disentangle without more data (e.g. from systems were the likely dominant competitor is absent), the null model approach seeks to avoid interpreting chance as specialisation (Blüthgen, 2010).”
Organic dairy farming: impacts on insect–flower interaction networks and pollination (2011, neutral): “…between floral abundance and specialization asymmetry (similar to interaction strength asymmetry; Vázquez et al. 2007; Dormann et al. 2009; Blüthgen 2010), which suggests that floral abundance is not the most important determinant of insect–flower interaction network structure in…”