Food-web structure and network theory: The role of connectance and size

By Jennifer A. Dunne, Richard J. Williams, Neo D. Martinez. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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QUANTITATIVE PATTERNS IN THE STRUCTURE OF MODEL AND EMPIRICAL FOOD WEBS (2004, background): “Indeed, the complexity of the new webs has rendered itquite challenging to obtain quantitative patterns with which to “substitute” the old ones (Dunne et al., 2002).”
FOOD WEB COHESION (2004, background): “On the other hand, this cohesive structure may decrease the probability of network fragmentation when species are removed (Albert et al. 2000, Solé and Montoya 2001, Dunne et al. 2002).”
Network science of biological systems at different scales: A review. (2017, background): “[64] Dunne JA, Williams RJ, Martinez ND.”
Invariant properties in coevolutionary networks of plant-animal interactions (2002, background): “…are available, but the small-world structure, with average path length between species increasing linearly with the logarithm of the number of species (Watts & Strogatz 1998) has been reported repeatedly (Montoya & Solé 2002; Williams et al. 2002; but see Camacho et al. 2002; Dunne et al. 2002b).”
The Structure and Function of Complex Networks (2003, background): “(Food webs may be different from other networks in that they appear to be dense: mean vertex degree increases roughly linearly with network size, rather than remaining constant as it does in most networks [132, 273].”
Indices, Graphs and Null Models: Analyzing Bipartite Ecological Networks (2009, background): “Dunne et al. 2002; Olesen and Jordano 2002; Jordano et al. 2003; Vazquez and Aizen 2004) and provided new stimulus to research into evolutionary mechanisms within communities (e.g.”
Finding community structure in very large networks. (2004, background): “[21] M. E. J. Newman and M. Girvan, Finding and evaluating community structure in networks.”
Ecological importance of sharks and rays in a structural foodweb analysis in southern Brazil (2014, background): “Trophic webs indicate that structural patterns are relatively constant in similar environments (Dunne, 2009), and our results on density and connectance are consistent with other marine foodwebs (Dunne et al., 2002b; Gaichas and Francis, 2008; Navia, 2013), suggesting that this foodweb has a high st”
Modeling population connectivity by ocean currents, a graph-theoretic approach for marine conservation (2007, methodology): “Although graph theory has been applied in a number of fields (Newman 2003; Watts 2004), including ecology for the analysis of food webs (e.g., Dunne et al. 2002 ) and metapopulations (Fahrig and Merriam 1985), it has rarely been applied to spatial landscapes (Cantwell and Forman 1993; Keitt et al. ”
Resolving Food-Web Structure (2020, background): “These developments rejuvenated the study of topological patterns in trophic networks (Dunne et al. 2002, Bascompte et al. 2003, Pascual & Dunne 2006).”
Conservation of species interaction networks (2010, background): “However, when comparing networks of different sizes, the probability of secondary extinction (Solé and Montoya, 2001; Dunne et al., 2002a,b; Memmott et al., 2004; Rezende et al., 2007) is more likely to be related to the actual average number of interacting partners of each species (i.e. generality…”