Inference of ecological interaction networks

2008/05/09 by Paola Vera-Licona, Reinhard Laubenbacher, Vera-Licona, Paola +1
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology · #FOS: Biological sciences #Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE) #q-bio.PE

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0805.1395

To appear in Annales Zoologici Fennici

arxiv created 2008/05/09 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

The inference of the interactions between organisms in an ecosystem from observational data is an important problem in ecology. This paper presents a mathematical inference method, originally developed for the inference of biochemical networks in molecular biology, adapted for the inference of networks of ecological interactions. The method is applied to a network of invertebrate families (taxa) in a rice field.

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