One of the challenges for ecologists working with trophic/interaction networks is to understand their organization. One of the possible approaches is to compare them across a random model, with more or less constraints, in order to estimate the departure from randomness. To this effect, null models have been developed. ... [Read more...]

While reading a paper on mutualistic networks in press at Ecology, by Jimena Dorado et al., I found the following sentence in the Materials & methods section: Correlation analyses were done using the cor.test function in the basepackage of R (…)Read the rest of this entry » [Read more...]

A short modification of a function to draw bipartite networks in matrix form, with sorting of the network to reflect its nestedness. [Read more...]