Analysis and assembling of network structure in mutualistic systems

DOI10.1016/J.JTBI.2006.12.033zbMATH Open1451.92330arXivq-bio/0701029OpenAlexW2081226556WikidataQ79815934 ScholiaQ79815934MaRDI QIDQ2210080FDOQ2210080

Authors: Diego Medan, R. P. J. Perazzo, Mariano Devoto, E. Burgos, H. Ceva, Ana M. Delbue, Martín G. Zimmermann 

Publication date: 5 November 2020

Published in: Journal of Theoretical Biology (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: It has been observed that mutualistic bipartite networks have a nested structure of interactions. In addition, the degree distributions associated with the two guilds involved in such networks (e.g. plants & pollinators or plants & seed dispersers) approximately follow a truncated power law. We show that nestedness and truncated power law distributions are intimately linked, and that any biological reasons for such truncation are superimposed to finite size effects . We further explore the internal organization of bipartite networks by developing a self-organizing network model (SNM) that reproduces empirical observations of pollination systems of widely different sizes. Since the only inputs to the SNM are numbers of plant and animal species, and their interactions (i.e., no data on local abundance of the interacting species are needed), we suggest that the well-known association between species frequency of interaction and species degree is a consequence rather than a cause, of the observed network structure.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0701029

Recommendations

• Build-up mechanisms determining the topology of mutualistic networks
• Understanding and characterizing nestedness in mutualistic bipartite networks
• Why nestedness in mutualistic networks?
• Dragging in mutualistic networks
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5300453

zbMATH Keywords

networknestednesspreferential attachmentmutualistic systemsplant-pollinator

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Systems biology, networks (92C42) Ecology (92D40)

Cites Work

• Statistical mechanics of complex networks
• Emergence of Scaling in Random Networks
• Title not available (Why is that?)

Cited In (16)

• Title not available (Why is that?)
• Dragging in mutualistic networks
• Network dynamics contribute to structure: nestedness in mutualistic networks
• Extended Structural Balance Theory and Method for Cooperative–Antagonistic Networks
• Nested structure acquired through simple evolutionary process
• Fruit nutritive factor network
• Inferring plant ecosystem organization from species occurrences
• Impact of the mesoscale structure of a bipartite ecological interaction network on its robustness through a probabilistic modeling
• Analysis of trophic networks: an optimisation approach
• The smallest of all worlds: pollination networks
• Why nestedness in mutualistic networks?
• Ecological analysis of world trade
• Architecture of attractor determines dynamics on mutualistic complex networks
• Understanding and characterizing nestedness in mutualistic bipartite networks
• Exploring simple structural configurations for optimal network mutualism
• Build-up mechanisms determining the topology of mutualistic networks

This page was built for publication: Analysis and assembling of network structure in mutualistic systems

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q2210080)