Workshop, Ecological Society of America, Annual Meeting, August 2015
Workshop Learning Objectives
Participants will be able to ...
- Describe the features of a network model and explain the advantages and disadvantages of this model type
- Characterize the aims of network science and explain why they are relevant for ecologists
- Identify multiple examples of network ecology
- Analyze bipartite models with R
- Use enaR and EcoNet software to apply selected Ecosystem Network Analyss and interpret the output
| Introduction | ||
| ~ 10 min | Welcome & Objectives | Matt K. Lau |
| 50 min | Introduction to Networks (notes) | Stuart R. Borrett |
| 30 min | Model Construction (notes) | Stuart J. Whipple |
| Break | ||
| 60 min | Bipartite Network Analysis (with R) (notes) | Matt K. Lau |
| Break | ||
| 50 min | Introduction to Ecosystem Network Analysis with enaR (notes) Datafile to download MDMAR02.xlsx |
Stuart R. Borrett |
| 50 min | Ecosystem Network Analysis with EcoNet (notes) | Caner Kaczanci |
| 10 min | Wrap Up |
Matt K. Lau |
This workshops is scheduled for 5 hours.
PrimaryProloux et al. 2005. Network thinking in ecology and evolution. TREE Fath and Patten 1999. Review of the Foundations of network environ analysis. Ecosystems Ulanowicz, R.E. 2004. Quantitative methods for ecological network analysis. Computational Biology and Chemistry, 28:321-339. Fath et al. 2007. Ecological Network Analysis: Network Construction. Ecol. Model. Borrett and Lau. 2014. enaR: An R package for Ecosysetm Network Analysis. Methods in Ecology and Evolution Kazanci. 2007. EcoNet: A new software for ecological modeling, simulation and network analysis. Ecol. Model.
BackgroundBarabasi 2012 Network Takeover. Science Borrett et al. 2014. The rise of Network Ecology: Maps of the topic diversity and scientific collaboration. Ecol. Model. Brandes et al 2013 What is Network Science? Network Science
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SoftwareenaRenaR is available from CRAN R Reference Card EcoNetEcoNet Website
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Other useful software inlcudes Pajek, UCINET, NETWRK4, WAND.
