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ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE
Volume 4, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
ROYAL SOC
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.170251
Keywords
dynamic networks; network clustering; animal contact network; trophic network; stochastic block model
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- French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
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In ecology, recent technological advances and long-term data studies now provide longitudinal interaction data (e.g. between individuals or species). Most often, time is the parameter along which interactions evolve but any other one-dimensional gradient (temperature, altitude, depth, humidity, etc.) can be considered. These data can be modelled through a sequence of different snapshots of an evolving ecological network, i.e. a dynamic network. Here, we present how the dynamic stochastic block model approach developed by Matias & Miele (Matias & Miele In press J. R. Stat. Soc. B (doi:10.1111/rssb.12200)) can capture the complexity and dynamics of these networks. First, we analyse a dynamic contact network of ants and we observe a clear high-level assembly with some variations in time at the individual level. Second, we explore the structure of a food web evolving during a year and we detect a stable predator-prey organization but also seasonal differences in the prey assemblage. Our approach, based on a rigorous statistical method implemented in the R package dynsbm, can pave the way for exploration of evolving ecological networks.
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