A straightforward computational approach for measuring nestedness using quantitative matrices

By Mário Almeida-Neto, Werner Ulrich. Environmental Modelling & Software, 2011

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

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Citations in the corpus

Humidity levels drive reproductive modes and phylogenetic diversity of amphibians in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest (2012, methodology): “Nestedness was determined using the NODF program (Almeida-Neto & Ulrich, 2011).”
Statistical challenges in null model analysis (2012, background): “Abundance based matrices potentially contain more information on species associations than presence – absence matrices and might be better suited to infer patterns of matrix structure and the underlying processes that generate these patterns (Ulrich and Gotelli 2010, Almeida-Neto and Ulrich 2010).”
Global patterns of mainland and insular pollination networks (2016, methodology): “…for all 52 networks using the package ‘bipartite’ v.2.00 (Dormann et al., 2009) in R v.3.1.0 (R Development Core Team, 2014), the software nodf v.2.0 (Almeida-Neto & Ulrich, 2011; http://www.keib.umk.pl/ nodf/) for the calculation of weighted nestedness based on overlap and decreasing fill (WNODF)…”
Palaearctic biogeography revisited: evidence for the existence of a North African refugium for Western Palaearctic biota (2014, methodology): “All calculations were carried out using the software applications nodf (Almeida-Neto & Ulrich, 2011) and turnover (Ulrich & Gotelli, 2013).”
Species traits and abundances predict metrics of plant–pollinator network structure, but not pairwise interactions (2015, background): “Under-sampling both species and interactions not only results in underestimates of network size, it can also bias the estimation of other network structural metrics (Bl ü thgen et al. 2008, Almeida-Neto and Ulrich 2011) and the likelihood analysis.”
Plant-frugivore networks are less specialized and more robust at forest-farmland edges than in the interior of a tropical forest (2012, background): “WNODF measures how strongly species interactions of little connected species are nested within those of highly connected species (Almeida-Neto and Ulrich 2011) and ranges from 0 for non-nested to 100 for fully nested networks.”
A general framework for analyzing beta diversity, nestedness and related community-level phenomena based on abundance data (2013, background): “The condition that the sum of minima is larger than zero is necessary, because without overlap there is no nestedness at all in the presence/absence case (Almeida-Neto and Ulrich, 2011) and logic dictates to maintain this condition here as well.”