Publications

2025

Weber, S., Bascompte, J, Kahmen, A. and Niklaus, P. (2025). AMF diversity promotes plant community phosphorus acquisition and reduces carbon costs per unit of phosphorus. New Phytologist (in press).

Muro, E.M., Ballesteros, F.J., Luque, B. and Bascompte, J. (2025). The emergence of eukaryotes as an evolutionary algorithmic phase transition. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 122 (13), e2422968122.

Pedraza, F., Gawecka, K.A. and Bascompte, J. (2025). Coevolution increases robustness to extinctions in mutualistic but not exploitative communities. Ecology, 106:e70044.

2024

Gleiser, G., Alcántara, J.M., Bascompte, J., Garrido, J.L., Montesinos-Navarro, A., Paterno, G.B., Valiente-Banuet, A., Verdú, M. (2024). The phylogenetic architecture of recruitment networks. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 34:e13944.

Cosmo, L.G., Acquaviva, J.N., Guimarães, P.R. Jr., and Pires, M.M. (2024). Coevolutionary hotspots favour dispersal and fuel biodiversity in mutualistic landscapes under environmental changes. Philosophical Transactions B, 379:20230133.

van de Leemput, I.A., Bascompte, J., Buddendorf, W.B., Dakos, V., Lever, J.J., Scheffer, M., and van Nes, E.H. (2024). Transformation starts at the periphery: How push-pull dynamics stifle change at the core of networks. Scientific Reports, 14:11344.

Barreto, E., Boehm, M., Ogutcen, E., Abrahamczyk, S., Kessler, M., Bascompte, J., Dellinger, A., Bello, C., Dehling, D.M., Duchenne, F., Kaehler, M., Lagomarsino, L.P., Lohmann, L.G., Maglianesi, M.A., Morlon, H., Muchhala, N., Ornelas, J.F., Perret, M., Salinas, N.R., Smith, S.D., Vamosi, J.C., Varassin, I.G., & Graham, C.H. (2024). Macroevolution of the plant-hummingbird pollination system. Biological Reviews, 99:1831–1847.

Wechsler, D., Bascompte, J. (2024). Mechanistic interactions as the origin of modularity in biological networks. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 291:20240269.

Banerjee, S., Zhao, C., Garland, F., Edlinger, A. García-Palacios, P., Romdhane, S., Degrune, F., Pescador, D.S., Herzog, C. Camuy-Velez, L., Bascompte, J., Hallin, S. Philippot, L., Maestre, F.T., Rillig, M.C., and van der Heijden, M. (2024). Biotic homogenization: lower soil fungal diversity and fewer rare taxa in arable soils across Europe. Nature Communications, 15:327.

Sören E.W., Bascompte, J., Kahmen, A. and Niklaus, P.A. (2024). Plant choice between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal species results in increased plant P acquisition. Plos One, 19(1)e0292811:1-14.

Pedraza, F., Hanlun, L., Gawecka, K., and Bascompte, J. (2024). The role of indirect effects in coevolution as mutualism transitions into antagonism. The American Naturalist, 203:28-42.

2023

Lever, J.J., Van Nes, E.H., Scheffer, M., Bascompte, J. (2023). Five fundamental ways in which complex food webs may spiral out of control. Ecology Letters, 26:1765-1779.

Chongmeng, X., Sato, Y., Yamazaki, M., Brasser, M., Barbour, M., Bascompte, J. and Shimizu, K. (2023). Genome-wide association study of aphid abundance highlights a locus affecting plant growth and flowering in Arabidopsis thaliana. Royal Society Open Science, 10:230399.

Cosmo, L.G., Assis A.P., Aguiar, M.A., Valido, A., Jordano, P., Thompson, J.N., Bascompte, J. and Guimarães, P.R. Jr. (2023). Indirect effects shape species fitness in coevolved mutualistic networks. Nature, 619:788-792.

Gawecka, K.A., and Bascompte, J. (2023). Habitat restoration and the recovery of metacommunities. Journal of Appplied Ecology, 23:1622-1636.

Costa, A.P., Bascompte, J., Padial, A. (2023). Modularity in host-parasite mixed-networks: interaction configuration shifts based on human perturbation and parasitism form. International Journal for Parasitology, 53:585-594.

Rui-Jie, W., Kong, Y., Di, Z., Bascompte, J., Shi, G. (2023). Rigorous Criteria for the Collapse of Nonlinear Cooperative Networks. Physical Review Letters 130: 097401.

Bascompte, J., Scheffer, M. (2023). The Resilience of Plant-Pollinator Networks. Annual Review of Entomology, 68: 363-380.

2022

Gawecka, K.A., Pedraza, F., and Bascompte, J. (2022). Effects of habitat destruction on coevolving metacommunities. Ecology Letters, 25: 2597-2610.

Gaiarsa, M., Bascompte, J. (2022). Hidden effects of habitat restoration on the persistence of pollination networks. Ecology Letters, 25: 2132–214.

Gomes, S., Fortuna, M.A., Bascompte, J., and Merckx, V. (2022). Mycoheterotrophic plants preferentially target arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi that are highly connected to autotrophic plants. New Phytologist, 235: 2034-2045.

Miller, T.E. and Bascompte, J. (2022). Incorporating trophic and spatial structure. In Foundations of Ecology II. Classic Papers with Commentaries. Miller, T.E. and Travis, J. eds. pp. 397-407. Chicago University Press.

Barbour, M.A., Kliebenstein, D.J., and Bascompte, J. (2022). A keystone gene underlies the persistence of an experimental food web. Science, 376: 70-73.

Sonne, J., Maruyama, P.K., Martin Gonzalez, A.M., Rahbek, C., Bascompte, J., and Dalsgaard, B. (2022). Extinction, coextinction and colonization dynamics in plant-hummingbird networks under climate change. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 6: 720–729.

Wechsler, D. and Bascompte J. (2022). Cheating in mutualisms promotes diversity and complexity. The American Naturalist, 199: 393–405.

2021

Pedraza, F., and Bascompte, J. (2021). The joint role of coevolutionary selection and network structure in shaping trait matching in mutualisms. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 288: 20211291.

Cámara-Leret, R., and Bascompte, J. (2021). Language extinction triggers the loss of unique medicinal knowledge. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 118 (24), e2103683118.

Liu, H. Liu, Z. Zhang, M., Bascompte, J., He, F., and Chu, C. (2021). Geographic variation in the robustness of pollination networks is mediated by modularity. Global Ecology and Biogeography, 30: 1447-1460.

Gawecka, K., and Bascompte, J. (2021). Habitat restoration in spatially explicit metacommunity models. Journal of Animal Ecology, 90:1239–1251.

Losapio, G. Schöb, C., Staniczenko, P.P.A., Carrara, F., Palamara, G.M., De Moraes, C.M., Mescher, M.C.,Brooker, R.W., Butterfield, B.J., Callaway, R.M., Cavieres, L.A., Kikvidze, Z., Lortie, C.J., Michalet, R.,Pugnaire, F.I., and Bascompte, J. (2021). Network motifs involving both competition and facilitation predict biodiversity in alpine plant communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 118 (6): e2005759118

Losapio, G., Schmid, B., Bascompte, J., Michalet, R., Cerretti, P., Germann, C., Haenni, J.-P., Neumeyer, R., Ortiz-Sánchez, F.J., Pont, A.C., Rousse, P., Schmid, J., Sommaggio, D., and Schöb, C. (2021). An experimental approach to assessing the impact of ecosystem engineers on biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Ecology, 102(2): e03243.

2020

Assis, A.P.A., Thompson, J.N., Santana, P.C., Jordano, P., Bascompte, J., and Guimarães, P.R. Jr.(2020). Genetic correlations and ecological networks shape coevolving mutualisms. Ecology Letters 23: 1789-1799.

Bascompte, J., and Ferrera, A. (2020). A structural theory of mutualistic networks. In Theoretical Ecology: Concepts and Applications. McCann K. and Gellner G. eds. pp. 93-115. Oxford University Press.

Fortuna, M.A., Nagavci, A., Barbour, M.A., and Bascompte, J. (2020). Partner fidelity and asymmetric specialization in ecological networks. The American Naturalist, 196: 382-389.

Barbour, M.A., Greyson-Gaito, C.J., Sootodeh, A., Locke, B., and Bascompte, J. (2020). Loss of consumers constrains phenotypic evolution in the resulting food web. Evolution Letters, 4: 266-277.

Hall, A.R., Ashby, B., Bascompte, J., and King, K.C. (2020). Measuring Coevolutionary Dynamics in Species-Rich Communities. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 35: 539-550.

Lever, J., van de Leemput, I., Weinans, E., Quax, R., Dakos, V., van Nes, E., Bascompte, J., and Scheffer, M. (2020). Foreseeing the future of mutualistic communities beyond collapse. Ecology Letters 23: 2-15.

2019

Frank, S.A., and Bascompte, J. (2019). Invariance in ecological pattern. F1000Research 8:2093, published, peer review approved.

Weinans, E., Lever, J., Bathiany S., Quax, R., Bascompte, J., van Nes, E., Scheffer, M., and van de Leemput, I. (2019). Finding the direction of lowest resilience in multivariate complex systems. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 16: 20190629.

Cámara-Leret, R., Fortuna, M.A., and Bascompte, J. (2019). Indigenous knowledge networks in the face of global change. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 116 (20): 9913-9918.

Bascompte, J. (2019). Mutualism and biodiversity. Current Biology 29, R425–R473.

Fortuna, M.A., Barbour, M., Zaman, L., Hall, A.R., Buckling, A., and Bascompte, J. (2019). Coevolutionary dynamics shape the structure of bacteria-phage infection networks. Evolution, 73-5: 1001–1011.

Chomiski, G., Weber, M., Antonelli, A., Bascompte, J., and Kiers, T. (2019). The Impact of Mutualisms on Species Richness. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 34: 698-711.

Bascompte, J., García, B.M., Ortega, R., Rezende, L.E., and Pironon, S. (2019). Mutualistic interactions reshuffle the effects of climate change on plants across the tree of life. Science Advances, 5: eaav2539.

Mariani, M.S., Ren, Z.-M., Bascompte, J., and Tessone, C.J. (2019). Nestedness in complex networks: observation, emergence, and implications. Physics Reports, 813:1-90.

Losapio, G., Fortuna, M.A., Bascompte, J., Schmid, B., Michalet, R., Neumeyer, R., Castro, L., Cerretti, P., Germann, C., Haenni, J.-P., Klopfstein, S., Ortiz-Sanchez, F.J., Pont, A.C., Rousse, P., Schmid, J., Sommaggio, D., and Schöb, C. (2019). Plant interactions shape pollination networks via nonadditive effects. Ecology, 100(3).

2018

Wechsler, D., and Bascompte, J. (2018). Thresholds in the resilience of modular social networks to invasion by defectors. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 460: 56-63.

Yang, X., Yan, C., Zhao, Q., Holyoak, M., Fortuna, M.A., Bascompte, J., Jansen, P.A., and Zhang, Z. (2018). Ecological succession drives the structure change of seed-rodent interaction networks in fragmented forests. Forest Ecology and Management, 419-420: 42-50.

Pellissier, L., Albouy, C., Bascompte, J., Farwig, N., Graham, C., Loreau, M., Maglianesi-Sandoz, M.A., Melián, C.J., Pitteloud, C., Roslin, T., Rohr, R.P., Saavedra, S., Thuiller, W., Woodward, G., Zimmermann, N.E., and Gravel, D. (2018). Comparing species interaction networks along environmental gradients. Biological Reviews, 93: 785–800.

2017

Guimarães Jr., P.R., Pires, M.M., Jordano, P., Bascompte, J., and Thompson, J.N. (2017). Indirect effects drive coevolution in mutualistic networks. Nature, 550: 511-514.

Fortuna, M.A., Zaman, L., Wagner, A., and Bascompte J. (2017). Non-adaptive origins of evolutionary innovations increase network complexity in interacting digital organisms. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 372: 20160431.

Gilarranz, L.J., Rayfield, B., Liñán-Cembrano, G., Bascompte, J., and Gonzalez, A. (2017). Effects of Network modularity on the spread of perturbation impact in experimental metapopulations. Science 357: 199–201.

Saavedra, S., Rohr, R.P., Bascompte, J., Godoy, O., Kraft, N.J.B., and Levine, J.M. (2017). A structural approach for understanding multispecies coexistence. Ecological Monographs, 87: 470-486.

Levine, J.M., Bascompte, J., Adler, P.B., and Allesina S. (2017). Beyond pairwise coexistence: biodiversity maintenance in complex communities. Nature, 456: 56-64.

2016

Rohr, R.P., Saavedra, S., Peralta, G., Frost, C.M., Bersier, L.-F., Bascompte, J., and Tylianakis J.M. (2016). Persist or produce: a community trade-off tuned by species evenness. The American Naturalist, 188: 411-422.

Lavabre, J.E., Gilarranz, L.J., Fortuna, M.A., and Bascompte, J. (2016). How does the functional diversity of frugivorous birds shape the spatial pattern of seed dispersal? Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 371: 20150280.

Gilarranz, L.J., Mora, C., and Bascompte, J. (2016). Anthropogenic effects are associated with a lower persistence of marine food webs. Nature Communications 7:10737.

Barbour, M.A., Fortuna, M.A., Bascompte, J., Nicholson, J.R., Julkunen-Tiitto, R., Jules, E.S., and Crutsinger G.M. (2016). Genetic specificity of a plant-insect food web: implications for linking genetic variation to network complexity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA, 113 (8): 2128-2133.

Saavedra, S., Rohr, R.P., Olesen, J.M., Bascompte J.(2016). Nested species interactions promote feasibility over stability during the assembly of a pollinator community. Ecology and Evolution, 6(4):997–1007.

Aizen, M., Gleiser, G., Sabatino, M., Gilarranz, L.J., Bascompte, J., and Verdu, M. (2016). The phylogenetic structure of plant-pollinator networks increases with habitat size and isolation. Ecology Letters, 19: 29–36.

Saavedra, S., Rohr, R.P., Fortuna, M.A., Selva, N., and, Bascompte, J. (2016). Seasonal species interactions minimize the impact of species turnover on the likelihood of community persistence. Ecology 97(4): 865–873.

2015

Österblom, H., Scheffer, M., Westley, F., van Esso, M., Miller, J., and Bascompte, J. (2015). A Message from Magic to Science; Seeing how the brain can be tricked may strengthen our thinking. Ecology and Society, 20(4): 16.

Bascompte, J., and Olesen, J.M. (2015). Mutualistic networks. In Mutualism, Judith L. Bronstein. Oxford University Press, pp. 203-220.

Scheffer, M. , Bascompte, J. , Bjordam, T.K., Carpenter, S.R., Clarke, L.B., Folke, C., Marquet, P., Mazzeo, N., Meerhoff, M., Sala, O., and Westley, F.R. (2015). Dual thinking for scientists. Ecology and Society 20 (2): 3.

Rodewald, A.D., Rohr, R.P., Fortuna, M.A., and Bascompte, J. (2015). Does removal of invasives restore ecological networks? An experimental approach. Biological Invasions, 17:2139-2146.

Gilarranz, L.J., Sabatino, M., Aizen, M.A., and Bascompte. J. (2015). Hot spots of mutualistic networks. Journal of Animal Ecology, 84: 407–413.

Gilarranz, L.J., Hastings, A., and Bascompte, J. (2015). Inferring topology from dynamics in spatial networks. Theoretical Ecology, 8: 15-21.

Rodewald, A., Rohr, R.P., Fortuna, M.A., and Bascompte, J. (2015). Community-level demographic consequences of urbanization: an ecological network approach. Journal of Animal Ecology, 83: 1409-1417.

2014

Fortuna, M.A., Ortega, R., and Bascompte J. (2014). The web of life. arXiv:1403.2575.

Dakos, V., and Bascompte, J. (2014). Critical slowing down as early warning for the onset of collapse in mutualistic communities. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 111 (49): 17546–17551.

Saavedra, S., Gilarranz, L.J., Rohr, R.P., Schnabel, M., Uzzi, B., and Bascompte J. (2014). Stock fluctuations are correlated and amplified across networks of interlocking directorates. EPJ Data Science 2014, 3:30.

Pilosof, S., Fortuna, M.A., Cosson, J.-F., Galan, M., Kittipong, C., Ribas, A., Segal, E., Krasnov, B.R., Morand, S., and Bascompte, J. (2014). Host-parasite network structure is associated with community-level immunogenetic diversity. Nature Communications 5:5172.

Stouffer, D.B., Cirtwill, A.R., and Bascompte, J. (2014). How exotic plants integrate into pollination networks. Journal of Ecology, 102: 1442-1450.

Saavedra, S., Rohr, R.P., Gilarranz, L.J., and Bascompte, J. (2014). How structurally stable are global socioeconomic systems? J. R. Soc. Interface 11: 20140693.

Rohr, R.P., and Bascompte, J. (2014). Components of phylogenetic signal in antagonistic and mutualistic networks. The American Naturalist, 184: 556-564.

Rohr, R.P., Saavedra, S., and Bascompte, J. (2014). On the structural stability of mutualistic systems. Science, 345: 416-425.

Lavabre, J.E., Stouffer, D.B., Sanz, R., and Bascompte, J. (2014). Seed dispersal in heterogeneous landscapes: linking field observations with spatially explicit models. Oikos, 123: 1355-1364.

Lever, J.J., van Nes, E.H., Scheffer, M., and Bascompte, J. (2014). The sudden collapse of pollinator communities. Ecology Letters, 17: 350–359.

2013

Bascompte, J. (2013). Adaptation, Fast and Endless. Sience Magazine, 341:130-131.

Bascompte, J. (2013). Las Matemáticas de la biodiversidad. Investigación y Ciencia.

Arroyo, J.M., Munguia-Vega, A., Rodríguez-Estrella, R., and Bascompte, J. (2013). Isolation of 18 microsatellite loci in the desert mistletoe Phoradendron californicum (Santalaceae) via 454 pyrosequencing. Applications in Plant Sciences 2013 1(12): 1300048.

Saavedra, S., Rohr, R.P., Dakos, V., and Bascompte, J. (2013). Estimating the tolerance of species to the effects of global environmental change. Nature Communications, 4: 2350 (2013).

Albert, E.M., Fortuna, M.A., Godoy, J.A., and Bascompte, J. (2013). Assessing the robustness of the networks of spatial genetic variation. Ecology Letters, 16: 86-93.

Nuismer, S.L., Jordano, P., and Bascompte, J. (2013). Coevolution and the architecture of mutualistic networks. Evolution 67: 338–354.

Rohr, R.P., Fortuna, M.A., Luque, B., and Bascompte, J. (2013). Nestedness in mutualistic networks. arXiv:1301.3651v1

2012

Scheffer, M., Carpenter, S., Lenton, T.M., Bascompte, J., Brock, W., Dakos, V., van de Koppel, J., van de Leemput, I., Levin, S., van Nes, E.H., Pascual, M., and Vandermeer, J. (2012). Anticipating critical transitions. Science, 338: 344-348.

Barnosky, A.D., Hadly, E.A., Bascompte, J., Berlow, E.L., Brown, J.H., Fortelius, M., Getz, W.M., Harte, J., Hastings, A., Marquet, P.A., Martinez, N.D., Mooers, A., Roopnarine, P., Vermeij, G., Williams, J.W., Gillespie, R., Kitzes, J., Marshall, C., Matzke, N., Mindell, D.P., Revilla, E., and Smith, A.B. (2012). Approaching a state-shift in Earth's biosfere. Nature, 486: 52-58.

Stouffer, D.B., Sales-Pardo, M., Sirer, M.I., and Bascompte, J. (2012). Evolutionary conservation of species' roles in food webs. Science, 335: 1489-1492.

Jabot, F., and Bascompte, J. (2012). Bitrophic interactions shape biodiversity in space. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 109: 4521-4526.

Gilarranz, L.J., and Bascompte, J. (2012). Spatial network structure and metapopulation persistence. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 297: 11-16.

2011

Saavedra, S., Stouffer, D.B., Uzzi, B., and Bascompte, J. (2011). Strong contributors to network persistence are the most vulnerable to extinction. Nature, 478: 233-235.

Stouffer, D.B., and Bascompte, J. (2011). Compartmentalization increases food-web persistence. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 108: 3648-3652.

Capitán, J.A., Cuesta, J.A., and Bascompte, J. (2011). Species assembly in model ecosystems, II: Results of the assembly process. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 269: 344-355.

Olesen, J.M., Bascompte, J., Dupont, Y.L., Helberling, H., Rasmussen, C., and Jordano, P. (2011). Missing and forbidden links in mutualistic networks. Proccedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 278: 725-732.

2010

Bascompte, J. (2010). Structure and dynamics of ecological networks (Perspective). Science 329: 765-766.

Bascompte, J., Aizen, M., Fontaine, C., Fortuna, M.A., Jordano, P., Lewinsohn, T.M., Memmott, J., Olesen, J.M., Petanidou, T., Rico-Gray, V., and Thompson, J.N. (2010). Symposium 6: Mutualistic netoworks. Reports from the ESA Annual Meeting. Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, July 2010: 367-370.

Fortuna, M.A., Stouffer, D., Olesen, J.M., Jordano, P., Mouillot, D., Krasnov, B., Poulin, R., and Bascompte, J. (2010). Nestedness versus modularity in ecological networks: two sides of the same coin? Journal of Animal Ecology, 79: 811-817.

Tylianakis, J.M., Laliberté, E., Nielsen, A., and Bascompte, J. (2010). Conservation of species interaction networks. Biological Conservation, 143: 2270-2279.

Stouffer, D.B. and Bascompte, J. (2010). Undestanding food-web persistence from local to global scales. Ecology Letters, 13: 154-161.

2009

Jordano, P., Vázquez, D., and Bascompte, J. (2009). Redes complejas de interacciones mutualistas planta-animal. In Ecología y Evolución de Interacciones Planta-Animal. R. Medel, M.A. Aizen and R. Zamora, editors. Editorial Universitaria, Santiago de Chile, pp. 17-41.

Stouffer, D.B., Fortuna, M.A., and Bascompte, J. (2009). Ideas for moving beyond structure to dynamics of ecological networks. In Handbook on Biological Networks. Boccaletti S., Latora V., and Moreno Y., eds. pp. 307-328- World Scientific Publishing Company.

Belgrano, A. , Dunne, J.A., and Bascompte, J. (2009). Food Webs. In Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences. Steele J, Thorpe S. and Turekian K, eds. pp. 596-603.

Capitán, J.A., Cuesta, J.A., and Bascompte, J. (2009). Statistical machanics of ecosystem assembly. Physical Review Letters, 103: 168101.

Fortuna, M.A., Albaladejo, R.G., Fernández, L., Aparicio, A., and Bascompte, J. (2009). Networks of spatial genetic variation across species. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 106: 19044-19049.

Scheffer, M., Bascompte, J., Brock, W.A., Brovkin, V., Carpenter, S.R., Dakos, V., Held, H., van Nes, E.H., Rietkerk, M. and Sugihara, G. (2009). Early-warning signals for critical transitions. Nature, 461: 53-59.

Bascompte, J. (2009). Disentangling the Web of Life. Science, 325: 416-419.

Joppa, L.N., Bascompte, J., Montoya, J.M., Solé, R.V., Sanderson, J., and Pimm, S.L. (2009). Reciprocal specialization in ecological networks. Ecology Letters, 12: 961-969.

Rezende, E., Albert, E.M., Fortuna, M.A., and Bascompte, J. (2009). Compartments in a Marine Food Web Associated with Phylogeny, Body Mass, and Habitat Structure. Ecology Letters, 12: 779-788.

Bastolla, U., Fortuna, M.A., Pascual-García, A., Ferrera, A., Luque, B., and Bascompte, J. (2009). The architecture of mutualistic networks minimizes competition and increases biodiversity. Nature, 458: 1018-1020.

Fortuna, M.A., Popa-Lisseanu, A.G., Ibañez, C., and Bascompte, J. (2009). The roosting spatial network of a bird-predator bat. Ecology, 90: 934-944.

Melián, C.J., Bascompte, J., Jordano, P., and Krivan, V. (2009). Diversity in a complex ecological network with two interaction types. Oikos, 118: 122-130.

Bascompte, J. (2009). Mutualistic Networks. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 8: 429-436.

2008

Bascompte, J., and Stouffer, D.B. (2008). The assembly and disassembly of ecological networks. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 364: 1781-1787.

Ings, T.C., Montoya, J.M., Bascompte, J., Blüthgen, N., Brown, L., Dormann, C.F., Edwards, F., Figueroa, D., Jacob, U., Jones, J.I., Laurisden, R.B., Ledger, M.E., Lewis, H.M., Olesen, J., Frank van Veen, F.J., Warren, P.H., and Woodward, G. (2008). Ecological networks -- beyond food webs. Journal of Animal Ecology, 78: 253-269.

Tylianakis, J.M., Didham, R.K., Bascompte, J., and Wardle, D.A. (2008). Global change and species interactions in terrestrial ecosystems. Ecology Letters, 11: 1351-1363.

Krishna, A., Guimarães, P.R., Jordano, P., and Bascompte, J. (2008). A neutral-niche theory of nestedness in mutualistic networks. Oikos, 117: 1609-1618.

Belgrano, A., Dunne, J., and Bascompte, J. (2008). Food webs. Encyclopedia of Ocean Sciences, pp. 596-603.

Fortuna, M.A., and Bascompte, J. (2008). The network approach in ecology. In Unity in Diversity. Reflections in Ecology After the Legacy of Ramon Margalef. F. Valladares et al., editors. Fundación BBVA, pp. 371-393.

Bascompte, J. (2008). Ecological Systems. In Encyclopedia of Complexity and System Science, Springer.

Fortuna, M.A., García, C., Guimarães, P.R., and Bascompte, J. (2008). Spatial mating networks in insect-pollinated plants. Ecology Letters, 11: 490-498.

Olesen, J.M., Bascompte, J, Elberling, H., and Jordano, P. (2008). Temporal dynamics in a pollination network. Ecology, 89: 1573-1582.

2007

Olesen, J.M., Bascompte, J., Dupont, Y.L., and Jordano, P. (2007). The modularity of pollination networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 104: 19891-19896.

Bascompte, J. (2007). Plant-animal mutualistic networks: the architecture of biodiversity. Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Serie A Matemática, 101: 221-223.

Guimarães, P.R., Machado, G., de Aguiar, M.A.M., Jordano, P., Bascompte, J., Pineiro, A., and dos Reis, S.F. (2007). Build-up mechanisms determining the topology of mutualistic networks. Journal of theoretical Biology, 249: 181-189.

Bascompte, J. and Jordano, P. (2007). Plant-animal mutualistic networks: the architecture of biodiversity. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, 38: 567-593.

Bascompte, J. (2007). Biology and Mathematics. ARBOR, 725: 347-351.

Rezende, E., Jordano, P., and Bascompte, J. (2007). Effects of phenotypic complementarity and phylogeny on the nested structure of mutualistic networks. Oikos, 116: 1919-1929.

Bascompte, J. (2007). Networks in ecology. Basic and Applied Ecology (Invited Views), 8: 485-490.

Rezende, E., Lavabre, J., Guimaraes, P., Jordano, P., and Bascompte, J. (2007). Non-random coextinctions in phylogenetically structured mutualistic networks. Nature, 448: 925-928.

Nielsen, A., and Bascompte, J. (2007). Ecological networks, nestedness, and sampling effort. Journal of Ecology, 95: 1134-1141.

Bascompte, J., Luque, B., Olarrea, J., and Lacasa, L. (2007). A probabilistic model of reserve design. Journal of theoretical Biology, 247: 205-211.

2006

Bascompte, J., Jordano, P., and Olesen, J.M. (2006). Response to Comment on “Asymmetric Coevolutionary Networks Facilitate Biodiversity Maintenance”. Science, 313: 1887c

Bascompte, J. (2006). Flirting with Reality. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 21: 539-540.

Bascompte, J., Jordano, P., and Olesen, J.M. (2006). Asymmetric coevolutionary networks facilitate biodiversity maintenance. Science, 312: 431–433.

Fortuna, M.A., Gómez-Rodríguez, C., and Bascompte, J. (2006). Spatial network structure and amphibian persistence in stochastic environments. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B, 273: 1429–1434.

Lewinsohn, T.M., Prado, P.I., Jordano, P., Bascompte, J., and Olesen, J.M. (2006). Structure in plant-animal interaction assemblages. Oikos, 113: 174–184.

Fortuna, M.A., and Bascompte, J. (2006). Habitat loss and the structure of plant-animal mutualistic networks. Ecology Letters, 9: 281–286.

Olesen, J.M., Bascompte, J., Dupont, Y.L., and Jordano, P. (2006). The smallest of all worlds: pollination networks. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 240: 270–276.

Bascompte, J., and Jordano, P. (2006). The structure of plant-animal mutualistic networks. In Ecological Networks: Linking Structure to Dynamics in Food Webs, M. Pascual and J.A. Dunne (Eds.). Oxford University Press, pp. 143–159.

Jordano, P., Bascompte, J., and Olesen, J.M. (2006). The ecological consequences of complex topology and nested structure in pollination webs. In Specialization and Generalization in Plant-Pollinator Interactions, N. Wasser and J. Ollerton (Eds.). Chicago University Press, pp. 173–199.

2005

Bascompte, J., and Melián, C.J. (2005). Simple trophic modules for complex food webs. Ecology, 86: 2868–2873.

Bascompte, J., Melián, C.J., and Sala, E. (2005). Interaction strength combinations and the overfishing of a marine food web. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 102: 5443–5447.

Guimarães, P.R., de Aguiar, M.A.M., Bascompte, J., Jordano, P., and dos Reis, S.F. (2005). Random initial conditions in small Barabasi-Albert networks and deviations from the scale-free behavior. Physical Review E, 71: 037101.

Melián, C.J., Bascompte, J., and Jordano, P. (2005). Spatial structure and dynamics in a marine food web. In Aquatic Food Webs, A. Belgrano et al. (Eds.). Oxford University Press, pp. 19–24.

2004

Micheli, F., Amarasekare, P., Bascompte, J., and Gerber, L.R. (2004). Including species interactions in the design and evaluation of marine reserves: some insights from a predator-prey model. Bulletin of Marine Science, 74: 653–669.

Melián, C.J., and Bascompte, J. (2004). Food web cohesion. Ecology, 85: 352–358.

2003

Bascompte, J., Jordano, P., Melián, C.J., and Olesen, J.M. (2003). The nested assembly of plant-animal mutualistic networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 100: 9383–9387.

Bascompte, J. (2003). Extinction thresholds: insights from simple models. Ann. Zool. Fennici, 40: 99–114.

Liebhold, A., and Bascompte, J. (2003). The Allee effect, stochastic dynamics and the eradication of alien species. Ecology Letters, 6: 133–140.

Jordano, P., Bascompte, J., and Olesen, J.M. (2003). Invariant properties in coevolutionary networks of plant-animal interactions. Ecology Letters, 6: 69–81.

2002

Melián, C.J., and Bascompte, J. (2002). Complex networks: two ways to be robust? Ecology Letters, 5: 705–708.

Bascompte, J. (2002). Pattern formation. In Encyclopedia of Evolution, M. Pagel (Ed.). Oxford University Press, pp. 870–873.

Ovaskainen, O., Sato, K., Bascompte, J., and Hanski, I. (2002). Metapopulation models for extinction threshold in spatially correlated landscapes. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 215: 95–108.

Gerber, L.R., Kareiva, P.M., and Bascompte, J. (2002). The influence of life history attributes and fishing pressure on the efficacy of marine reserves. Biological Conservation, 106: 11–18.

Melián, C.J., and Bascompte, J. (2002). Food web structure and habitat loss. Ecology Letters, 5: 37–46.

Bascompte, J., Possingham, H., and Roughgarden, J. (2002). Patchy populations in stochastic environments: critical number of patches for persistence. The American Naturalist, 159: 128–137.

2001

Roemer, G.W., Coonan, T.J., Garcelon, D.K., Bascompte, J., and Laughrin, L. (2001). Feral pigs facilitate hyperpredation by golden eagles and indirectly cause the decline of the island fox. Animal Conservation, 4: 307–318.

Bascompte, J., and Rodríguez, M.A. (2001). Habitat patchiness and plant species richness. Ecology Letters, 4: 417–420.

Bjørnstad, O.N., and Bascompte, J. (2001). Synchrony and second order spatial correlation in host-parasitoid systems. Journal of Animal Ecology, 70: 924–933.

Bascompte, J. (2001). Aggregate statistical measures and metapopulation dynamics. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 209: 373–379.

Solé, R.V., Alonso, D., Bascompte, J., and Manrubia, S.C. (2001). On the fractal nature of ecological and macroevolutionary dynamics. Fractals, 9: 1–16.

2000

Bascompte, J. (2000). Population dynamics. In McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology. McGraw-Hill, pp. 356–357.

Bascompte, J., and Rodríguez, M.A. (2000). Self-disturbance as a source of spatiotemporal heterogeneity: the case of the tallgrass prairie. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 204: 153–164.

Kendall, B.E., Bjørnstad, O.N., Bascompte, J., Keitt, T.H., and Fagan, W.F. (2000). Dispersal, environmental correlation, and spatial synchrony in population dynamics. The American Naturalist, 155: 628–636.

1999

Micheli, F., Cottingham, K.L., Bascompte, J., Bjørnstad, O.N., Eckert, G.L., Fischer, J.M., Keitt, T.H., Kendall, B.E., Klug, J.L., and Rusak, J.A. (1999). The dual nature of community variability. Oikos, 85: 161–169.

1998

Bascompte, J., and Solé, R.V. (1998). Effects of habitat destruction in a prey-predator metapopulation model. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 195: 383–393.

Bascompte, J., and Rodríguez-Trelles, F. (1998). Eradication thresholds in epidemiology, conservation biology and genetics. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 192: 415–418.

Bascompte, J., and Solé, R.V. (1998). Spatiotemporal patterns in nature. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 13: 173–174.

Bascompte, J., and Solé, R.V. (1998). Models of habitat fragmentation. In Modelling Spatiotemporal Dynamics in Ecology, J. Bascompte and R.V. Solé (Eds.). Springer-Verlag, pp. 127–149.

Solé, R.V., and Bascompte, J. (1998). Emergent phenomena in spatially extended model ecosystems. In Modelling Spatiotemporal Dynamics in Ecology, J. Bascompte and R.V. Solé (Eds.). Springer-Verlag, pp. 1–25.

1997

Bascompte, J., and Vilà, C. (1997). Fractals and search paths in mammals. Landscape Ecology, 12: 213–221.

Bascompte, J., Solé, R.V., and Martinez, N. (1997). Population cycles and spatial patterns in snowshoe hares: an individual-oriented simulation. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 187: 213–222.

1996

Solé, R.V., Bascompte, J., and Manrubia, S.C. (1996). Extinctions: bad genes or weak chaos? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 263: 1407–1413.

Bascompte, J., and Solé, R.V. (1996). Habitat fragmentation and extinction thresholds in spatially explicit models. Journal of Animal Ecology, 65: 465–473.

Solé, R.V., and Bascompte, J. (1996). Are critical phenomena relevant to large-scale evolution? Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B, 263: 161–168.

Solé, R.V., Manrubia, S.C., Luque, B., Delgado, J., and Bascompte, J. (1996). Phase transitions and complex systems. Complexity, 1: 13–26.

1995

Bascompte, J., and Solé, R.V. (1995). Spatial dynamics and chaos. Reply. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 10: 491–492.

Bascompte, J., and Solé, R.V. (1995). Rethinking complexity: modelling spatiotemporal dynamics in ecology. Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 10: 361–366.

Bascompte, J., and Solé, R.V. (1995). Appropriate formulations for dispersal in spatially structured models: reply. Journal of Animal Ecology, 64: 665–666.

Solé, R.V., and Bascompte, J. (1995). Measuring chaos from spatial information. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 175: 139–147.

1994

Bascompte, J., and Solé, R.V. (1994b). Local and ensemble dynamics of linked populations: Reply to Ruxton. Journal of Animal Ecology, 63: 1003.

Solé, R.V., and Bascompte, J. (1994). Ecological chaos. Nature, 367: 418.

Bascompte, J., and Solé, R.V. (1994a). Spatially induced bifurcations in single-species population dynamics. Journal of Animal Ecology, 63: 256-264.

1993

Bascompte, J., and Solé, R.V. and Valls, J. (1993). Diversity at the edge of chaos: a new look at the baroque of nature. Proceedings of the 1st Copenhagen Symposium on Computer Simulation in Biology, Ecology, and Medicine: 56-60.

Solé, R.V., and Bascompte, J. (1993). Chaotic Turing structures. Physics Letters A, 179: 325-331.

1992

Bascompte, J., Solé, R.V., and Valls, J. (1992). Chaotic behaviour in simulated planktonic successions: I. Discrete temporal maps. Scientia Marina, 56: 285–292.

Bascompte, J., Solé, R.V., and Valls, J. (1992). Spatiotemporal dynamics, bistability and chaos in coupled map lattice models of ecological populations. Proceedings of the 8th Prague Symposium on Computer Simulation in Biology, Ecology and Medicine, pp. 65–71.

Solé, R.V., Bascompte, J., and Valls, J. (1992). Stability and complexity of spatially extended two-species competition. Journal of Theoretical Biology, 159: 469–480.

Solé, R.V., Bascompte, J., and Valls, J. (1992). Nonequilibrium dynamics in lattice ecosystems: chaotic stability and dissipative structures. Chaos, 2: 387–395.

Solé, R.V., Valls, J., and Bascompte, J. (1992). Spiral waves, chaos and multiple attractors in lattice models of interacting populations. Physics Letters A, 166: 123–128.