dc.contributor.author | Peterson, A. Townsend | |
dc.contributor.author | Soberón, Jorge | |
dc.contributor.author | Ramsey, Janine | |
dc.contributor.author | Osorio-Olvera, Luis | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-01-05T19:55:19Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-01-05T19:55:19Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-01-31 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/31034 | |
dc.description | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | We assess a body of work that has attempted to use co-occurrence networks to infer the existence and type of biotic interactions between species. Although we see considerable interest in the approach as an exploratory tool for understanding patterns of co-occurrence of species, we note and describe numerous problems in the step of inferring biotic interactions from the co-occurrence patterns. These problems are both theoretical and empirical in nature, and limit confidence in inferences about interactions rather severely. We examine a series of examples that demonstrates striking discords between interactions inferred from co-occurrence patterns and previous experimental results and known life-history details. | en_US |
dc.publisher | University of Kansas | en_US |
dc.rights | Copyright A. Townsend Peterson, Jorge Soberón, Janine Ramsey, Luis Osorio-Olvera, 2020. | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ | en_US |
dc.title | Co-occurrence Networks do not Support Identification of Biotic Interactions | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
kusw.kuauthor | Peterson, A. Townsend | |
kusw.kuauthor | Soberón, Jorge | |
kusw.kudepartment | Ecology & Evolutionary Biology | en_US |
kusw.kudepartment | KU Biodiversity Institute | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.17161/bi.v15i1.9798 | en_US |
kusw.oaversion | Scholarly/refereed, publisher version | en_US |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | en_US |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess | en_US |