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

By Élisa Thébault, Colin Fontaine. Science, 2010

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

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Defining invasiveness and invasibility in ecological networks (2016, background): “Although consensus on the structure of mutualistic networks has been reached (e.g. Bascompte et al. 2003; Olesen et al. 2007; Guimarães et al. 2007; Thébault and Fontaine 2010; Mello et al. 2011), there is still considerable debate with respect to antagonistic networks (e.”
The restoration of tropical seed dispersal networks (2015, positive): “Analyzing the architecture of mutualistic networks between animals and fruit trees in restored areas of forest can provide a useful tool for evaluating and monitoring the restoration of the ecosystem function of seed dispersal (Tylianakis et al. 2010).”
Identifying compartments in presence–absence matrices and bipartite networks: insights into modularity measures (2013, background): “To do so, I built random test networks with a known modular structure (see Thébault & Fontaine, 2010, for a full description of the algorithm for the construction process for these bipartite networks).”
Linking plant phenology to conservation biology (2016, background): “Some studies indicate that phenology plays a key role in the stability and diversity of mutualistic communities (Thébault and Fontaine, 2010) and is of key importance for themanagement and conservation of plant–pollination interactions and mutualistic networks (Memmott et al.”
Structure–stability relationships in networks combining mutualistic and antagonistic interactions (2014, methodology): “We analyse their stability with a dynamical model that followed the same assumptions than previous models used to assess structure–stability relationships in isolated mutualistic and antagonistic networks (Okuyama and Holland 2008, Bastolla et al. 2009, Thébault and Fontaine 2010).”
Describe, understand and predict: why do we need networks in ecology? (2016, background): “…2004; Ings et al. 2009), in particular when studying the structure of ecological communities (de Ruiter et al. 1995; Neutel et al. 2002; Bascompte et al. 2003; Krause et al. 2003) and the dynamic or functional consequences of this structure (Th ebault & Fontaine 2010; Stouffer & Bascompte 2011).”
Temporal scale‐dependence of plant–pollinator networks (2020, background): “2003, Thébault and Fontaine 2010), we observed the opposite trend.”
Adaptive foraging allows the maintenance of biodiversity of pollination networks (2013, methodology): “There is ample evidence that interactions in natural pollination networks exhibit a nested structure (Bascompte et al. 2003, Thébault and Fontaine 2010).”