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20192025
most citedDiverse interactions and ecosystem engineering stabilize community assembly

60 citations

11 papers

physics.soc-ph2025

Diffusion-driven pattern formation in an opinion dynamical network model

Tim Mauch, Thilo Gross

The spatial organization of individuals and their interactions in communities are important factors known to preserve diversity in many complex systems. Inspired by metapopulation…

physics.soc-ph2025

Counting Chemical Isomers with Multivariate Generating Functions

Rana Shojaei, Thilo Gross

Counting the number of isomers of a chemical molecule is one of the formative problems of graph theory. However, recent progress has been slow, and the problem has largely been ign…

q-bio.PE2024★ 20 cited

Cross-feeding Creates Tipping Points in Microbiome Diversity

Tom Clegg, Thilo gross

A key unresolved question in microbial ecology is how the extraordinary diversity of microbiomes emerges from the behaviour of individual populations. This process is driven by the…

physics.soc-ph2023★ 24 cited

Multidimensional political polarization in online social networks

Antonio F. Peralta, Pedro Ramaciotti, János Kertész +1

Political polarization in online social platforms is a rapidly growing phenomenon worldwide. Despite their relevance to modern-day politics, the structure and dynamics of polarized…

nlin.AO2022★ 7 cited

Critical drift in a neuro-inspired adaptive network

Silja Sormunen, Thilo Gross, Jari Saramäki

It has been postulated that the brain operates in a self-organized critical state that brings multiple benefits, such as optimal sensitivity to input. Thus far, self-organized crit…

q-bio.PE2021★ 22 cited

Sharp thresholds limit the benefit of defector avoidance in cooperation on networks

Ashkaan K. Fahimipour, Fanqi Zeng, Martin Homer +3

Consider a cooperation game on a spatial network of habitat patches, where players can relocate between patches if they judge the local conditions to be unfavorable. In time, the r…

q-bio.PE2021★ 3 cited

Master Stability Functions for metacommunities with two types of habitats

Alexander Krauß, Thilo Gross, Barbara Drossel

Current questions in ecology revolve around instabilities in the dynamics on spatial networks and particularly the effect of node heterogeneity. We extend the Master Stability Func…

q-bio.PE2021★ 26 cited

Estimation of functional diversity and species traits from ecological monitoring data

Alexey Ryabov, Bernd Blasius, Helmut Hillebrand +2

The twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss define a strong need for functional diversity monitoring. While the availability of high-quality ecological monitoring data…

physics.soc-ph2020★ 13 cited

Epidemic Arrival Times; Theory, Discussion, and Limitations

Alastair Jamieson-Lane, Bernd Blasius

The rise of the World Airline Network over the past century has lead to sharp changes in our notions of `distance' and `closeness' - both in terms of trade and travel, but also (le…

q-bio.PE2019★ 60 cited

Diverse interactions and ecosystem engineering stabilize community assembly

Justin D. Yeakel, Mathias M. Pires, Marcus A. M. de Aguiar +4

The complexity of an ecological community can be distilled into a network, where diverse interactions connect species in a web of dependencies. Species interact not only with each…

q-bio.PE2019★ 4 cited

Mapping the bacterial ways of life

Ashkaan K Fahimipour, Thilo Gross

The rise in the availability of bacterial genomes defines a need for synthesis: abstracting from individual taxa, to see larger patterns of bacterial lifestyles across systems. A k…