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🔄Metacommunity connectance and emergent patterns drive diversity via spatial eco-evolutionary feedback

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#EcoEvolutionaryFeedback #FunctionalDiversity #HabitatChange #Metacommunity #NetworkSize #Connectance #SelfOrganisedPatternFormation

October 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
danielaldrich.bsky.social
New #article from Stumpf-Biro et al: Community ecology foundations of social-ecological collapse
TL;DR: Resilience emerges from wider cooperative-network architecture, of which connectance is one dimension w redundancy, modularity, nestedness, and strength
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
September 22, 2026 at 2:42 AM
animalecology.bsky.social
📖 New paper📖

A global comparison of structural properties across ecological network types: The role of connectance, degree distribution and sampling inconsistencies🌍 🏔️ 🌲

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July 10, 2026 at 11:01 AM
colincarlson.bsky.social
Host and symbiont species richness have to scale linearly, because of the connectance of the network. So why do you get sublinear scaling if you draw complete subgraphs one host at a time?

The answer is specialists (single-host symbionts).
L = sigma H = eta S S = (eta / sigma) H
March 23, 2026 at 2:40 PM
louzula.bsky.social
What a good start to the week: My first paper just got published in Oikos! 🌱
"Metacommunity connectance and emergent patterns drive diversity via spatial eco-evolutionary feedback" with Christian Guill and Toni Klauschies
doi.org/10.1002/oik....

#ecology #phdlife #phdchat
Schematic figure from Philipp et al. 2025: Top left panel shows a satellite photo of multiple ponds in a landscape, top right panel shows the plankton community within a single pond as scheme drawing; the bottom left panel shows how the habitat (pond) structure is abstraced to a habiat network; the bottom right panel shows how the local community structure is abstracted to an aggregated food web model. Altogether, this 'trophic metacommunity' can show self-organisation that appear as biomass differences between habitats (denoted as differently shaded nodes of green and blue in the bottom left panel)
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
connectanceets.bsky.social
Un giorno anche la guerra s'inchinerà al suono di una chitarra.
(Jim Morrison)
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July 14, 2025 at 11:32 AM
biotropica.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Differences in Plant–Pollinator Network Structure and Pollinator Importance Between a Continental and an Oceanic Island Community
The oceanic island networks had higher network connectance, nestedness, and specialization than the continental island networks. Plant niche overlap was higher on the oceanic island than on the conti...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
apanec-lab.bsky.social
📃 New paper out! Our high-frequency sampling in barley fields shows food webs shift rapidly, with connectance, community makeup & predator–prey links changing over weeks and between years. Snapshot sampling can misjudge ecosystem functioning. 🕷️🐞🌾 rdcu.be/eSI9G
The dynamic nature of cereal food webs challenges the suitability of snapshot sampling for assessing ecosystem services
Scientific Reports - The dynamic nature of cereal food webs challenges the suitability of snapshot sampling for assessing ecosystem services
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December 2, 2025 at 9:18 AM
connectanceets.bsky.social
Della sua fragilità in quell’istante amai proprio
quello che dell’amore si paga piú caro: l’assenza di calcolo e di misura che appartiene solo alle cose nate libere. (Michela Murgia)
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July 28, 2025 at 11:10 AM
rubyecology.bsky.social
Allison Menzies @invertally.bsky.social spent 8 weeks sampling pollination networks in a Victorian grassland.
Though field conditions weren't great (lots of rain) she still found a decent network with lots of connectance, few honey bees and a lot more flies visiting than pollinating

#ESAus2024 🌏🧪
A photo of a slide entitled "Visitors -> Pollinators", with bullet points that state "pollen library from study plants", "matched to pollen on insects (539 identifications)", "created pollen transport networks". Images on the right hand side of the slide show close up photos of a pinned Flower Wasp specimen (Austroscolia sp.) bearing a mix of pollen grains. Other images show pollen grains from 5 native and 1 non-native plant species, with the clarification that the non-native species (Hypochaeris sp.) was not included in network analyses A slide showing a bipartite pollination network, with insect pollinator morphospecies on the top and flowering plant species on the bottom. Text below the network states that 545 interactions were detected overall, with 237 individuals from 54 morphospecies of insects in 7 orders (and 5 flowering plant species), with high connectedness in the network
December 16, 2024 at 4:48 AM
jeroenvandersluijs.bsky.social
"Using 30 empirical plant–pollinator communities, we show that network structure is associated with vulnerability to rapid change in demographic parameters, as measured by critical rates: higher connectance and nestedness increase tolerance to rapid changes
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
Network structure shapes pollinator collapse under rapid shifts in demographic rates with random fluctuations
Abstract. Ongoing environmental change threatens the persistence of species in ecological communities. Plant–pollinator mutualistic networks, which support
royalsocietypublishing.org
July 18, 2026 at 10:05 AM
louzula.bsky.social
I've waited 10 long months to finally report to you that YES, it is now finally available: doi.org/10.1002/oik....
The methods/results have not changed substantially since the preprint, but all the wrapping aorund it has transformed so much!
Metacommunity connectance and emergent patterns drive diversity via spatial eco‐evolutionary feedback
Self-organised pattern formation creates heterogeneous growth conditions in spatially extended ecosystems and can support local functional diversity in metacommunities – sets of communities linked by...
doi.org
September 29, 2025 at 1:51 PM
buildsoil.bsky.social
Here we go @biologybynicole.bsky.social just made this available
From Lussier et al., 2024 A) Nested Network B) Highly Connected Network Sp. A Predicted Network Expectations Connectance Nestedness Specialization Modularity Plants Frucivores Plants Frugivores C) Specialized Network D) Modular Network Network Measure Earty suocessional forest Secondary forest 25 Years of regeneration 75 Plants Frudvores Sp. E This review explores the potential of integrating seed dispersal networks in tropical forest restoration to enhance restoration outcomes. Combining zoocentric and phytocentric approach when sampling for seed dispersal interactions can yield larger networks and foster a more comprehensive understanding of dispersal interactions. Identifying the functional traits of generalist species that contribute to nested patterns in seed dispersal networks may be useful for restoration practitioners focusing on species reintroductions or active restoration planting efforts. Through stages of forest succession, a highly connected and species-rich network is desirable for earlier stages succession, while a highly modular network with specialized interactions should be highest at later successional stages of succession.
December 9, 2024 at 8:32 PM
infopointa.bsky.social
Coextinctions dominate future vertebrate losses from climate & land use change
Strona & Bradshaw. 2022
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

@umsonst.bsky.social

Species Extinction, climate change
Abstract 'Coextinctions dominate future vertebrate losses from climate and land use change' Strona & Bradshaw. 2022 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn4345 Abbildung 2 aus 'Coextinctions dominate future vertebrate losses from climate and land use change' Strona & Bradshaw. 2022 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn4345 "Fig. 2. Simulated, relative local loss of terrestrial vertebrate diversity, interactions, and connectance by 2100 compared to 2020 under different climatic projections. Maps show local loss in 2100 relative to initial conditions, while plots show the average loss across all Earth localities per year from 2020 to 2100. In both maps and plots, results are the average of 100 replicates (for the plots, first, we averaged local loss in the 100 replicates and then averaged local loss values across all localities. Shaded areas are 95% confidence intervals, showing the variation across localities in the average map obtained with 100 simulations)."
December 15, 2023 at 12:41 PM
anna26458.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Core reorganisation in food webs buffers ecosystems against warming - Communications Earth & Environment
Reorganization in food webs under warming reshapes core species, reducing stability through lower connectance but enhancing energy flux and robustness via core dynamics, based on observations across a...
www.nature.com
July 27, 2026 at 11:59 AM
jebyrnes.bsky.social
Network types, I’m familiar with network analyses with variable edge weights. But. What about instead variable node sizes (and equal edge weights). Are there different connectance/turnover/etc. techniques for those sorts of networks? My google and library-fu is failing me here.
November 24, 2024 at 1:51 AM
niooknaw.bsky.social
New Paper: Network topology reveals high connectance levels and few key microbial genera In: Frontiers in Envir. Sc. http://depot.knaw.nl/15236/
December 4, 2024 at 7:11 PM
robtrop.bsky.social
Our null-model simulations show that MDE alone can generate strong structure:

- unimodal peaks in realised links, generality and vulnerability

- U-shaped patterns in connectance and often nestedness

All emerging from geometry, not biology...
February 2, 2026 at 3:47 PM
connectanceets.bsky.social
OSARE IN GRANDE è un viaggio affascinante dentro l'emozione della "vergogna", intesa come sensazione dolorosa di essere sbagliati: insegna come diventare resilienti alla vergogna imparando la vulnerabilità e il coraggio di osare in grande nei progetti.
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August 8, 2025 at 12:02 PM
connectanceets.bsky.social
La tua mente è come quest’acqua, amico mio: quando viene agitata diventa difficile vedere, ma se le permetti di calmarsi la risposta ti appare chiara.
(da Kung Fu Panda)
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July 21, 2025 at 11:40 AM
connectanceets.bsky.social
A volte le parole non bastano.
E allora servono i colori.
E le forme.
E le note.
E le emozioni. (Alessandro Baricco)
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July 7, 2025 at 11:01 AM
connectanceets.bsky.social
Oggi è la prima Giornata internazionale dell’intelligenza artificiale, promossa da Enia, l’Ente Nazionale per l’Intelligenza Artificiale.
La data ricorda l’inizio della Dartmouth Conference (1956), che fu la nascita ufficiale della disciplina.
#Connectance #LearningBySharing #IntelligenzaArtificiale
July 4, 2025 at 7:01 AM
connectanceets.bsky.social
L’assemblea svoltasi a Caserta ha stabilito una serie di iniziative di espansione dell’Associazione. Una delle prime è aumentare il numero delle collaborazioni esterne per, ad esempio, partecipare a più bandi ed iniziative di fund raising.
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July 3, 2025 at 1:22 PM
connectanceets.bsky.social
La sessione di Academy interna a Caserta era focalizzata su una competenza fondamentale si è estesa sulla capacità di progettare in profondità un intervento formativo o di coaching.
Una giornata intera tra interventi ispirazionali e lavoro in gruppi.
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July 2, 2025 at 1:22 PM
connectanceets.bsky.social
Come possiamo allenare il nostro cervello? Da lunedi 10 marzo torna la #SettimanaDelCervello, centinaia di eventi che puoi trovare qui. www.settimanadelcervello.it #Connectance #LearningBySharing
March 5, 2025 at 10:45 AM