Quantitative Analysis of Ecological Networks.

Quantitative analysis of ecological weighted digraphs often appears under the rubric of "ecological network analysis." What is missing in ecosystems can be very important to network dynamics and places limits on network efficiency in favor of reliability. Here Dale and Fortin treat the empirical side of building networks - important problems encountered during data sampling and inference as well as statistical considerations occasioned by necessarily large data sets. [Extracted from the article]