Open AccessEcologicalNetworks.jl: analysing ecological networks of species interactions
Author(s) -
Poisot Timothée,
Bélisle Zachary,
Hoebeke Laura,
Stock Michiel,
Szefer Piotr
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ecography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.973
H-Index - 128
eISSN - 1600-0587
pISSN - 0906-7590
DOI - 10.1111/ecog.04310
Subject(s) - ecological network , computer science , ecology , property (philosophy) , measure (data warehouse) , data science , biology , data mining , ecosystem , epistemology , philosophy
Networks are a convenient way to represent many interactions among ecological entities. The analysis of ecological networks is challenging for two reasons. First, there is a plethora of measures that can be applied (and some of them measure the same property). Second, the implementation of these measures is sometimes difficult. We present ’EcologicalNetworks.jl’, a package for the ‘Julia’ programming language. Using a layered system of types to represent several types of ecological networks, this packages offers a solid library of basic functions which can be chained together to perform the most common analyses of ecological networks.