Bringing Elton and Grinnell together: a quantitative framework to represent the biogeography of ecological interaction networks
Dominique Gravel, Benjamin Baiser, Jennifer A. Dunne, Jens-Peter Kopelke, Neo D. Martinez, Tommi Nyman, Timothée Poisot, Daniel B. Stouffer, Jason M. Tylianakis, Spencer A. Wood, Tomas Rosling
The paper develops a quantitative framework to model the biogeography of ecological interaction networks, finding that environmental factors influence species co-occurrence but not interactions, which are stochastic.
bioRxiv · May 26, 2016 · PreprintEcology