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List of works by Stefano Allesina

A competitive network theory of species diversity

scientific article

A general model for food web structure.

scientific article published in May 2008

A new computational system, DOVE (Digital Organisms in a Virtual Ecosystem), to study phenotypic plasticity and its effects in food webs

scholarly article by Scott D. Peacor et al published July 2007 in Ecological Modelling

Characterizing a scientific elite (B): publication and citation patterns of the most highly cited scientists in environmental science and ecology

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Characterizing a scientific elite: the social characteristics of the most highly cited scientists in environmental science and ecology

scientific article

Cities as Ecosystems

Cities as ecosystems: Growth, development and implications for sustainability

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Coexistence of many species in random ecosystems

scientific article published on 09 July 2018

Coexistence of many species under a random competition–colonization trade-off

scientific article published on 23 January 2024

Correlation between interaction strengths drives stability in large ecological networks.

scientific article published on 19 June 2014

Cycling in ecological networks: Finn's index revisited

scientific article published in July 2004

Detecting Stress at the Whole-Ecosystem Level: The Case of a Mountain Lake (Lake Santo, Italy)

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Does sex speed up evolutionary rate and increase biodiversity?

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Drivers of compartmentalization in a Mediterranean pollination network

scientific article published in 2012

Ecological Network Inference From Long-Term Presence-Absence Data

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Ecological networks: Pursuing the shortest path, however narrow and crooked

scientific article published on 28 November 2019

Ecological subsystems via graph theory: the role of strongly connected components

scientific article published in 2005

Ecology: The more the merrier

scientific article published on 11 July 2012

Effect of localization on the stability of mutualistic ecological networks

scientific article published on 17 December 2015

Effective trophic positions in ecological acyclic networks

scientific article published in 2006

Feasibility and coexistence of large ecological communities

scientific article published on 24 February 2017

Food web models: a plea for groups.

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Food web networks: Scaling relation revisited

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Food webs: ordering species according to body size yields high degree of intervality.

scientific article published on 7 December 2010

Frequency-dependent selection predicts patterns of radiations and biodiversity

scientific article (publication date: 26 August 2010)

Functional links and robustness in food webs

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Good news for the people who love bad news: an analysis of the funding of the top 1% most highly cited ecologists

article by Christopher J. Lortie et al published 24 April 2012 in Oikos

Googling food webs: can an eigenvector measure species' importance for coextinctions?

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Interaction rules affect species coexistence in intransitive networks

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Last name analysis of mobility, gender imbalance, and nepotism across academic systems

scientific article published on 3 July 2017

Measuring nepotism through shared last names: the case of Italian Academia

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Metapopulation persistence in random fragmented landscapes

scientific article published on 20 May 2015

Modularity and stability in ecological communities

scientific article published on 23 June 2016

Network structure, predator–prey modules, and stability in large food webs

scholarly article by Stefano Allesina & Mercedes Pascual published 2 October 2007 in Theoretical Ecology

Ocean acidification affects competition for space: projections of community structure using cellular automata

scientific article published in March 2016

Operationalizing Network Theory for Ecosystem Service Assessments

scientific article

Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links

scientific article published on June 2008

Performance measurement in supply chains: new network analysis and entropic indexes

Phenotypic plasticity opposes species invasions by altering fitness surface

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Phenotypic variability promotes diversity and stability in competitive communities

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Predicting coexistence in experimental ecological communities

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Predicting global community properties from uncertain estimates of interaction strengths

scientific article published on August 2015

Predicting scientific success

scientific article

Predicting the stability of large structured food webs

scientific article published on 22 July 2015

Predicting trophic relations in ecological networks: a test of the Allometric Diet Breadth Model

scientific article published on 13 July 2010

Publisher Correction: Predicting coexistence in experimental ecological communities

scientific article published on 01 February 2020

Reconciling empirical interactions and species coexistence

scientific article published on 22 March 2019

Relevance of evolutionary history for food web structure.

scientific article published on 16 November 2011

Reply to Ferrarini: Strengths and weaknesses of simple competition models

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Secondary extinctions in ecological networks: Bottlenecks unveiled

scientific article published in 2006

Secondary extinctions in food webs: a Bayesian network approach

scientific article published in 2013

Selecting food web models using normalized maximum likelihood

article by Phillip P. A. Staniczenko et al published 10 May 2014 in Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Selection on stability across ecological scales

scientific article

Self-regulation and the stability of large ecological networks

scientific article published on 23 October 2017

Spatial guilds in the Serengeti food web revealed by a Bayesian group model

scientific article (publication date: December 2011)

Stability and feedback levels in food web models

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Stability criteria for complex ecosystems

scientific article published on 19 February 2012

Steady state of ecosystem flow networks: a comparison between balancing procedures

scientific article published in 2003

Ten simple (empirical) rules for writing science

scientific article published on 30 April 2015

The Effect of Intra- and Interspecific Competition on Coexistence in Multispecies Communities

scientific article published on 23 May 2016

The assembly, collapse and restoration of food webs

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The consequences of the aggregation of detritus pools in ecological networks

article published in 2005

The dimensionality of ecological networks.

scientific article published on 26 February 2013

The ghost of nestedness in ecological networks

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The scientific impact of nations: journal placement and citation performance

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The stability–complexity relationship at age 40: a random matrix perspective

article published in 2015

Tractable models of ecological assembly

scientific article published on 27 March 2021

Using food web dominator trees to catch secondary extinctions in action

scientific article published on June 2009

Using trophic hierarchy to understand food web structure

scientific article published in 2009

WAND: an ecological network analysis user-friendly tool

What Can Interaction Webs Tell Us About Species Roles?

scientific article published on 21 July 2015

Who dominates whom in the ecosystem? Energy flow bottlenecks and cascading extinctions

scientific article published in October 2004

With great power comes great responsibility: the importance of rejection, power, and editors in the practice of scientific publishing

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