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What constrains food webs? A maximum entropy framework for predicting their structure with minimal biases
Francis Banville, Dominique Gravel, Timothée Poisot
Food webs are complex ecological networks whose structure is both ecologically and statistically constrained, with many network properties being correlated with each other. Despite…
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…
Species traits and community properties explain species extinction effects on detritus-based food webs
Idaline Laigle, Isabelle Aubin, Dominique Gravel
Effects of changes in functional composition of soil communities on nutrient cycling are still not well understood. Models simulating community dynamics overcome the technical chal…
Revealing biases in the sampling of ecological interaction networks
Marcus A. M. de Aguiar, Erica A. Newman, Mathias M. Pires +8
The structure of ecological interactions is commonly understood through analyses of interaction networks. However, these analyses may be sensitive to sampling biases in both the in…
No complexity-stability relationship in natural communities
Claire Jacquet, Charlotte Moritz, Lyne Morissette +4
We performed a stability analysis of 119 quantitative food webs which were compiled using a standard methodology to build Ecopath mass-balance models. Our analysis reveals that cla…
A complex speciation-richness relationship in a simple neutral model
Philippe Desjardins-Proulx, Dominique Gravel
Speciation is the "elephant in the room" of community ecology. As the ultimate source of biodiversity, its integration in ecology's theoretical corpus is necessary to understand co…
A simple model to study phylogeographies and speciation patterns in space
Philippe Desjardins-Proulx, James L. Rosindell, Timothée Poisot +1
In this working paper, we present a simple theoretical framework based on network theory to study how speciation, the process by which new species appear, shapes spatial patterns o…
How likely is speciation in neutral ecology ?
Philippe Desjardins-Proulx, Dominique Gravel
Patterns of biodiversity predicted by the neutral theory rely on a simple phenomenological model of speciation. To further investigate the effect of speciation on neutral biodivers…