Background The principle that a single large habitat patch should hold more species than
several small patches totalling the same area (SL> SS) is used by conservation agencies to …

The observed architecture of ecological and socio-economic networks differssignificantly
from that of random networks. From a network science standpoint, non-random structural …

Economic complexity offers a potentially powerful paradigm to understand key societal
issues and challenges of our time. The underlying idea is that growth, development …

There is a rich amount of information in co‐occurrence (presence–absence) data that could
be used to understand community assembly. This proposition first envisioned by Forbes …

Metacommunity ecology links smaller-scale processes that have been the provenance of
population and community ecology—such as birth-death processes, species interactions …

Occupancy Estimation and Modeling: Inferring Patterns and Dynamics of Species
Occurrence, Second Edition, provides a synthesis of model-based approaches for analyzing …

Many analyses of ecological networks in recent years have introduced new indices to
describe network properties. As a consequence, tens of indices are available to address …

Modern computer-intensive statistical methods play a key role in solving many problems
across a wide range of scientific disciplines. This new edition of the bestselling …

Island biogeography is the study of the distribution and dynamics of species in island
environments. Due to their isolation from more widespread continental species, islands are …

Many ecological phenomena may be modelled using apparently random processes
involving space (and possibly time). Such phenomena are classified as spatial in their …