A consistent metric for nestedness analysis in ecological systems: reconciling concept and measurement

By Mário Almeida-Neto, Rafael Loyola, Gleb Wataghin, Werner Ulrich. 2008

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

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Citations in the corpus

Influence of extrafloral nectary phenology on ant–plant mutualistic networks in a neotropical savanna (2013, background): “This metric measures how much the species interactions with fewer interactions are a subset of species interactions that establish more interactions (Almeida-Neto et al., 2008).”
Macroecology of pollination networks (2013, methodology): “…measures of nestedness (NODFz-score) and modularity (Mz-score), where NODFz-score = (NODF - NODFRand)/SDRand, with NODF being the actual nestedness of the given network and NODFRand and SDRand being average and standard deviation of the randomizations, respectively (Almeida-Neto et al., 2008).”
Grazing alters insect visitation networks and plant mating systems (2014, positive): “In contrast, cattle grazing and attendant habitat modification was related to a fundamentally increased connectance and decreased nestedness (NODF) of the standardized visitation networks (Almeida-Neto et al. 2008; Ulrich, Almeida-Neto & Gotelli 2009).”
Adaptive foraging allows the maintenance of biodiversity of pollination networks (2013, methodology): “The network exhibits a highly significant nested structure, which we tested with the software Aninhado (Guimarães and Guimarães 2006) using the algorithm NODF (Almeida-Neto et al. 2008) as the nestedness index. The NODF value of this network is 16.23. It contains 64 plant species, 100 pollinator spe”
Statistical challenges in null model analysis (2012, methodology): “Only one matrix was jointly identifi ed by the three popular nestedness metrics (NODF, discrepancy, and temperature) as being nested.”
Historical climate‐change influences modularity and nestedness of pollination networks (2013, background): “3 (Almeida-Neto et al. 2008). NODF ranges from 0 to 100; values increase with level of nestedness. All modularity and nestedness values included in our analysis originate from Olesen et al. (2007) and Tr ø jelsgaard and Olesen (2013).”
Flower-Visiting Social Wasps and Plants Interaction: Network Pattern and Environmental Complexity (2012, methodology): “To estimate the nestedness value of networks, we used the NODF index: nestedness metric based on overlap and decreasing fill, see [47], calculated by the software Aninhado 3.”
Hydrological stability drives both local and regional diversity patterns in rock pool metacommunities (2015, methodology): “To test for a potentially nested structure of these two matrices the NODF nestedness metric was used which is based on overlap and decreasing fi ll (nestednodf ) (Almeida-Neto et al. 2008). Use of other indices such as matrix temperature (Rodr í guez-Giron é s and Santamar í a 2006) and the discrepa”
On nestedness in ecological networks (2010, methodology): “That we find a statistically significant excess of networks with unusual nestedness patterns within our data set, using the conservative null model, further warrants our conclusions that these patterns are more common in ecological networks than recent studies have claimed (Ulrich and Gotelli, 2007;”
A null model algorithm for presence-absence matrices based on proportional resampling (2012, methodology): “Although there is no formal proof of this (Miklós and Podani, 2004), we used the Atmar–Patterson data set (Atmar and Patterson, 1995) to compare the results of FF and SSR when applied to the C-score (Stone and Roberts, 1990) as a metric of species associations and to NODF (nestedness from overlap an”
Macroecological trends in nestedness and modularity of seed-dispersal networks: human impact matters (2015, methodology): “The qualitative degree of nestedness was calculated for each matrix using the metric NODF (nestedness overlap and decreasing fills; Almeida-Neto et al., 2008), while quantitative nestedness was calculated using WNODF (weighted NODF; Almeida-Neto & Ulrich, 2011).”