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Clara Monlleó-borrull

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Fuzzy quantification of common and rare species in ecological communities (FuzzyQ)

2021

International audience; Most species in ecological communities are rare, whereas only a few are common. This distributional paradox has intrigued ecologists for decades but the interpretation of species abundance distributions remains elusive.We present Fuzzy Quantification of Common and Rare Species in Ecological Communities (FuzzyQ) as an R package. FuzzyQ shifts the focus from the prevailing species-categorization approach to develop a quantitative framework that seeks to place each species along a rarity-commonness gradient. Given a community surveyed over a number of sites, quadrats, or any other convenient sampling unit, FuzzyQ uses a fuzzy clustering algorithm that estimates a probab…

0106 biological sciencesAssembly rulesFuzzy clustering[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]Rare species010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesFuzzy logic03 medical and health sciencesEnvironmental monitoringrarityEcology Evolution Behavior and Systematics030304 developmental biologyenvironmental monitoring0303 health sciencesCommunitybusiness.industryEcological ModelingEnvironmental resource managementassembly rulescommonness15. Life on landGeographyfuzzy clustering[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecologybusinessabundance–occupancy distributionscommunity ecology
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Network Analysis: Ten Years Shining Light on Host–Parasite Interactions

2020

Biological interactions are key drivers of ecological and evolutionary processes. The complexity of such interactions hinders our understanding of ecological systems and our ability to make effective predictions in changing environments. However, network analysis allows us to better tackle the complexity of ecosystems because it extracts the properties of an ecological system according to the number and distribution of links among interacting entities. The number of studies using network analysis to solve ecological and evolutionary questions in parasitology has increased over the past decade. Here, we synthesise the contribution of network analysis toward disentangling host-parasite proces…

0301 basic medicineComputer scienceEcology (disciplines)030231 tropical medicineEcological systems theoryModels BiologicalData scienceHost-Parasite Interactions03 medical and health sciences030104 developmental biology0302 clinical medicineInfectious DiseasesAnimalsParasitologyHost (network)Social Network AnalysisNetwork analysisTrends in Parasitology
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