Neo D. Martinez

TL;DR: This work investigates how several extinction orders affect the minimum number of secondary extinctions expected within pelagic food webs from 34 temperate freshwater lakes and suggests that lake communities are remarkably robust to this realistic extinction order and highly sensitive to the reverse sequence of species loss.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that species traits explain striking patterns in the body-size architecture of natural food webs that underpin the stability and functioning of ecosystems, paving the way for community-level management of the most complex natural ecosystems.

TL;DR: Adaptive foraging behaviour reverses negative effects of nestedness and positive effects of connectance on the stability of the networks by partitioning the niches among species within guilds, showing that incorporating key organismal behaviours with well-known biological mechanisms such as consumer-resource interactions into the analysis of ecological networks may greatly improve the understanding of complex ecosystems.

TL;DR: Higher levels of specialization and modularity were associated with species-rich communities and communities in which closely related hummingbirds visited distinct sets of flowering species, indicating a tighter co-evolutionary association between hummingbirds and their plants than in previously studied plant–bird mutualistic systems.

TL;DR: In this paper, an integrated approach is proposed to model community structure as a network of ecological interactions and show how it translates to biogeography questions, and apply this framework to host-parasite interactions across Europe and find that two aspects of the environment (temperature and precipitation) exert a strong imprint on species co-occurrence, but not on species interactions.