Generic Emergence of Modularity in Spatial Networks.

ABSTRACT: Landscape's spatial structure has vast implications for the dynamics and distribution of species populations and ecological communities. However, the characterization of the structure of spatial networks has not received nearly as much attention as networks of species interactions counterparts. Recent experiments show the dynamical implications of modularity to buffer perturbations, and theory shows that several other processes might be impacted if spatial networks were modular, from disease transmission to gene flow. Yet the question is, are spatial networks actually modular? Even though some case studies have found modular structures, we lack a general answer to that question. Here, I show that modularity is a naturally emergent property of spatial networks. This finding is further reinf

SUBMITTER: Gilarranz LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7250921 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature