1/6 Our new paper on "Spatially explicit predictions of food web structure from regional-level data" is finally out! Congrats to @gabdans.bsky.social for his great work on leading this piece :) https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2023.0166
2/6 We show how uncertainty and spatial variability in network structure can be explicitly accounted for when infering trophic networks across large spatial scales.
Jul 22, 2024 19:103/6 Our probabilistic framework builds potential trophic networks based on a probabilistic metaweb of interactions and the probability of species' presences in each given location.
4/6 Across Canada, we noticed a latitudinal signal on species richness and interactions across the potential networks, but this didn't necessarily align with richness/interaction hotspots, nor with variation in network motifs.
5/6 Our framework can help inform biodiversity hotspot analyses, but also where more sampling should be targeted to deal with network composition/structure uncertainty.
6/6 It can also be used in a forecasting context to explore potential effects of enviromental change on network structure.
