Microbial network construction is a popular explorative data analysis technique in
microbiome research. Although a large number of microbial network construction tools has …

Our planet is changing at paces never observed before. Species extinction is happening at
faster rates than ever, greatly exceeding the five mass extinctions in the fossil record …

Network approaches to ecological questions have been increasingly used, particularly in
recent decades. The abstraction of ecological systems–such as communities–through …

A central assumption in most ecological models is that the interactions in a community
operate only between pairs of species. However, two species may interactively affect the …

Relating biodiversity to ecosystem functioning in natural communities has become a
paramount challenge as links between trophic complexity and multiple ecosystem functions …

The influence of biotic interactions on microbial community assembly is intensely debated.
We hypothesized that keystone taxa, which influence community assembly through strong …

May's stability theory, which holds that large ecosystems can be stable up to a critical level of
complexity, a product of the number of resident species and the intensity of their interactions …

The diversity of life and its organization in networks of interacting species has been a long-
standing theoretical puzzle for ecologists. Ever since May's provocative paper challenging …

Food webs are a major focus and organizing theme of ecology, but the data used to
assemble them are deficient. Early debates over food-web data focused on taxonomic …

Taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversities are important facets of biodiversity.
Studying them together has improved our understanding of community dynamics, ecosystem …