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SUBMITTER: Yeakel JD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7335095 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Yeakel Justin D JD Pires Mathias M MM de Aguiar Marcus A M MAM O'Donnell James L JL Guimarães Paulo R PR Gravel Dominique D Gross Thilo T
Nature communications 20200703 1
The complexity of an ecological community can be distilled into a network, where diverse interactions connect species in a web of dependencies. Species interact directly with each other and indirectly through environmental effects, however to our knowledge the role of these ecosystem engineers has not been considered in ecological network models. Here we explore the dynamics of ecosystem assembly, where species colonization and extinction depends on the constraints imposed by trophic, service, a ...[more]