Jordi Bascompte

Ecological networks balance connectivity with flexibility to perturbations

Across 1,569 food-web, mutualistic and host–parasite networks, connectance falls as S^−0.65 while links per species rise; a diffusion-efficiency metric places networks near a local optimum.

Amazonian biocultural heritage under climate change

This study assesses how climate change will impact Amazonian biological and cultural heritage by analyzing plant species and Indigenous knowledge.

Quantifying the geographic mosaic of coevolutionary temperature: from coldspots to hotspots

The paper quantifies coevolutionary temperature across geographic landscapes using reciprocity and strength metrics, revealing hotspots and coldspots in plant-pollinator networks.

Local and Spatial Processes Shape the Collapse and Recovery of Mutualistic Networks

This study investigates how spatial structures and dispersal rates affect ecosystem recovery and mutualistic network persistence, finding that scale-free networks recover faster at intermediate dispersal rates.

Landscape configuration and community structure jointlydetermine the persistence of mutualists under habitat loss

This study shows that landscape configuration and community structure together influence the persistence of mutualistic species under habitat loss, with heterogeneous landscapes being more resilient to uncorrelated loss but vulnerable to correlated loss.

The roles of space and food web complexity in mediating ecological recovery

This study investigates how spatial configuration and food web complexity affect ecological recovery in restoration efforts, finding that food web complexity negatively impacts lower trophic levels but may be mitigated at higher complexity.