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Network ecologists investigate the structure, function, and evolution ofecological systems using network models and analyses. For example, networktechniques have been used to study community interactions (i.e., food-webs,mutualisms), gene flow across landscapes, and the sociality of individuals inpopulations. The work presented here uses a bibliographic and network approachto (1) document the rise of Network Ecology, (2) identify the diversity oftopics addressed in the field, and (3) map the structure of scientificcollaboration among contributing scientists. Our aim is to provide a broadoverview of this emergent field that highlights its diversity and to provide afoundation for future advances. To do this, we searched the ISI Web of Sciencedatabase for ecology publications between 1900 and 2012 using the search termsfor research areas of Environmental Sciences & Ecology and Evolutionary Biologyand the topic tag ecology. From these records we identified the Network Ecologypublications using the topic terms network, graph theory, and web whilecontrolling for the usage of misleading phrases. The resulting corpus entailed29,513 publications between 1936 and 2012. We document the rapid rise inNetwork Ecology publications per year reaching a magnitude of over 5% of theecological publications in 2012. Drawing topical information from thepublication record content (titles, abstracts, keywords) and collaborationinformation from author listing, our analysis highlights the diversity andclustering of topics addressed within Network Ecology and reveals the highlycollaborative approach of scientists publishing in this field. We conclude thatNetwork Ecology is a large and rapidly growing area of ecology, and we expectcontinued growth of this research field.

The Rise of Network Ecology: Maps of the topic diversity and scientific collaboration