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 …

Abstract Ecological Network Analysis (ENA) combines modeling and analysis used to
investigate the structure, function, and evolution of ecosystems and other complex systems …

Studying the control properties of complex networks provides insight into how designers and
engineers can influence these systems to achieve a desired behavior. Topology of a …

Written by an internationally renowned group of contributors, this book examines the
function and structure of coastal lagoon ecosystems and the factors that affect them. The …

Real network data is often incomplete and noisy, where link prediction algorithms and
spurious link identification algorithms can be applied. Thus far, it lacks a general method to …

In this paper, we utilize Spearman rank correlation coefficient to measure mixing patterns in
complex networks. Compared with the widely used Pearson coefficient, Spearman …

The common-neighbor–based method is simple yet effective to predict missing links, which
assume that two nodes are more likely to be connected if they have more common …

Trophic structure of ecosystems is a unifying concept in ecology; however, the quantification
of trophic level of individual components has not received the attention one might expect …

The coastal zone is a zone of transition between the purely terrestrial and purely marine
components on Earth's surface. It is widely recognised as being an important element of the …

We present a graph theoretic model of analysing food web structure called regular
equivalence. Regular equivalence is a method for partitioning the species in a food web into …