Telling ecological networks apart by their structure: An environment-dependent approach.

ABSTRACT: The network architecture of an ecological community describes the structure of species interactions established in a given place and time. It has been suggested that this architecture presents unique features for each type of ecological interaction: e.g., nested and modular architectures would correspond to mutualistic and antagonistic interactions, respectively. Recently, Michalska-Smith and Allesina (2019) proposed a computational challenge to test whether it is indeed possible to differentiate ecological interactions based on network architecture. Contrary to the expectation, they found that this differentiation is practically impossible, moving the question to why it is not possible to differentiate ecological interactions based on their network architecture alone. Here, we show that t

SUBMITTER: Song C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7200011 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature