A consumer's guide to nestedness analysis

By Werner Ulrich, Mário Almeida-Neto, Nicholas Gotelli. 2009

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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A comprehensive framework for the evaluation of metacommunity structure (2010, background): “More recently, a number of quantitative tests were developed that distinguish between nested and non-nested structures (Patterson and Atmar 1986, Wright and Reeves 1992, Wright et al. 1998, Jonsson 2001, Ulrich et al. 2009).”
A straightforward computational approach for measuring nestedness using quantitative matrices (2011, background): “One goal of nestedness analysis has always been to identify such “deviating” species that run counter to the ecological and geographic gradients of species occurrences and cause a nested subset pattern (Ulrich et al., 2009).”
Partitioning the turnover and nestedness components of beta diversity (2010, background): “Note that I use the term ‘species loss’ just to indicate that some species are absent from some sites, without regard to the underlying mechanism (i.e. extinction, differential dispersal capacity and others; Ulrich et al., 2009).”
How to monitor ecological communities cost-efficiently: The example of plant–pollinator networks (2010, background): “This null model is the best for cross-network comparisons as it allows significance testing irrespectively of matrix size and shape (Ulrich et al., 2009).”
BIODIVERSITY RESEARCH: Nestedness for different reasons: the distributions of birds, lizards and small mammals on islands of an inundated lake (2010, background): “To quantify the level of nestedness, a variety of metrics have been proposed, each with different limitations (Wright et al., 1998; Ulrich et al., 2009).”
A general framework for analyzing beta diversity, nestedness and related community-level phenomena based on abundance data (2013, background): “Similarly to beta diversity, earlier definitions of nestedness rely exclusively on presence/absence data (Ulrich et al., 2009) with measures falling into two broad categories: global coefficients such as the nestedness temperature, and averages of pairwise indices (see Podani and Schmera, 2012, for ”
Identifying compartments in presence–absence matrices and bipartite networks: insights into modularity measures (2013, methodology): “Numerous recent studies on nestedness have highlighted the importance of developing appropriate indices and tools to assess nested patterns in bipartite networks, namely in presence–absence matrices and interaction web data sets (Ulrich et al., 2009).”
On nestedness in ecological networks (2010, background): “Recently, several studies have used fixed row and fixed column constrained null models to show that nestedness in several sets of ecological networks is statistically rare (Ulrich and Gotelli, 2007; Almeida-Neto et al., 2008; Dormann et al., 2009; Ulrich et al., 2009), contradicting the early result”
The winners and losers of land use intensification: pollinator community disassembly is non‐random and alters functional diversity (2014, neutral): “sites) in a matrix ordered to maximize nestedness; hence, both columns and rows are included in the analyses (Ulrich & Gotelli, 2007; Almeida-Neto et al., 2008; Ulrich et al., 2009).”