Interactions connect the units of ecological systems, forming networks. Individual-based
networks characterize variation in niches among individuals within populations. These …

Niche breadth is a unifying concept spanning diverse aspects of ecology, evolution, and
conservation biology. Niche breadth usually refers to the diversity of resources used or …

For hundreds of millions of years, large vertebrates (megafauna) have inhabited most of the
ecosystems on our planet. During the late Quaternary, notably during the Late P leistocene …

Community ecology is tasked with the considerable challenge of predicting the structure,
and properties, of emerging ecosystems. It requires the ability to understand how and why …

Parasites have evolved independently in numerous animal lineages, and they now make up
a considerable proportion of the biodiversity of life. Not only do they impact humans and …

Summary 1 A fundamental goal of ecological network research is to understand how the
complexity observed in nature can persist and how this affects ecosystem functioning. This is …

1. Understanding the structure of ecological networks is a crucial task for interpreting
community and ecosystem responses to global change. 2. Despite the recent interest in this …

Haemosporida is a large group of vector‐borne intracellular parasites that infect
amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. This group includes the different malaria …

The strength of interactions among species in a network tends to be highly asymmetric. We
evaluate the hypothesis that this asymmetry results from the distribution of abundance …

The structure of ecological interaction networks is often interpreted as a product of
meaningful ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that shape the degree of specialization …