Ecological networks, nestedness and sampling effort

By Anders Nielsen, Jordi Bascompte. 2007

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

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Insect pollinators collect pollen from wind‐pollinated plants: implications for pollination ecology and sustainable agriculture (2018, background): “…studies of plant–pollinator networks in natural environments are likely to undersample the full suite of plant–pollinator interactions in the system (Nielsen & Bascompte, 2007; Chacoff et al., 2012; Rivera-Hutinel et al., 2012; Bartomeus, 2013) because standard sampling protocols often have a…”
Grazing alters insect visitation networks and plant mating systems (2014, unknown): “While nestedness is more robust to sampling effort, it also tends to increase with the number of interactions in a network (Bascompte et al. 2003; Nielsen & Bascompte 2007).”
Sampling networks of ecological interactions (2015, background): “…networks (Jordano, 1987), only recent studies have explicitly acknowledged it and attempted to determine its influence (Ollerton & Cranmer, 2002; Nielsen & Bascompte, 2007; Vázquez, Chacoff & Cagnolo, 2009; Gibson et al., 2011; Olesen et al., 2011; Chacoff et al., 2012; Rivera-Hutinel et al.,…”
Describe, understand and predict: why do we need networks in ecology? (2016, background): “…can infer from network data can only be as good as our understanding of the network itself; that is, our understanding of (i) which species are present (Jordano 2016b), (ii) the ways they interact (Nielsen & Bascompte 2007) and (iii) their local characteristics when observed (Poisot et al. 2015).”
Spatio‐temporal variation in the structure of pollination networks (2009, background): “Furthermore, Nielsen and Bascompte (2007), showed that nestedness (N and N*) remains relatively stable in a pollination network observed from four to 28 days.”
Temporal scale‐dependence of plant–pollinator networks (2020, methodology): “We considered the number of sampling days per network to be a measure of time-based sampling effort (Nielsen and Bascompte 2007) as sampling methods were mostly comparable among different days within individual studies.”
Identifying Causes of Patterns in Ecological Networks: Opportunities and Limitations (2017, background): “Both incomplete sampling and focal group bias have emerged as methodological concerns in recent studies (e.g., Nielsen & Bascompte 2007, Gibson et al. 2011, Sørensen et al. 2011, RiveraHutinel et al. 2012, Fründ et al. 2016, Vizentin-Bugoni et al. 2016).”
Indices, Graphs and Null Models: Analyzing Bipartite Ecological Networks (2009, background): “Finally, there are very few studies that assess several different network indices (Blüthgen et al. 2007; Nielsen and Bascompte 2007; Vázquez et al. 2007; Blüthgen et al. 2008), hence it remains unclear how correlated their response are and thus whether they respond to the same network properties.”
A consumer's guide to nestedness analysis (2009, background): “However, missing or unseen species can have large effects on patterns in interaction matrices (Nielsen and Bascompte 2007), although this problem has been ignored until recently in standard nestedness analyses (but see Cam et al.”
Biodiversity, species interactions and ecological networks in a fragmented world (2012, background): “Simulations of sampling can help reveal which metrics may be least sensitive to sampling effort (Nielsen and Bascompte, 2007; Tylianakis et al., 2010), and these may be the optimal candidates for biomonitoring.”
Macroecology of pollination networks (2013, background): “Numbers of species and their links are particularly sensitive to undersampling, although other network properties appear resilient (Nielsen & Bascompte, 2007; Hegland et al., 2010).”
Conservation of species interaction networks (2010, background): “link density, interaction richness) are notoriously sensitive to the number of species in the network and to sampling effort (Goldwasser and Roughgarden, 1997; Bersier et al., 1999; Nielsen and Bascompte, 2007).”