I work collaboratively with network theorists, computer scientists, and other field ecologists, and use a combination of approaches, to better understand the broader ecological impacts of biodiveristy loss and species invasions.
My primary collaborators in Ecological Networks research include:
Ulrich Brose,
TU Darmstadt
Ecological Networks Lab
Jennifer Dunne,
Santa Fe Institute
Neo Martinez,
Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational
Ecology Lab
Rich Williams,
Microsoft
Research Computational Ecology and Environmental Science Group
Philip Stark,
UC Berkeley, Dept of Statistics
Berlow, E. L. 1999. Strong effects of weak interactions in ecological communities. Nature 398, 300-334.
Williams R .J., Martinez, N. D., Berlow, E. L., Dunne, J. A. and Barabási, A-L. 2002: Two degrees of separation in complex food webs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 99, 12913-12916.
Berlow, E. L., Neutel, A.-M., Cohen, J. E., De Ruiter, P., Ebenman, B., Emmerson, M., Fox, J. W., Jansen, V. A. A., Jones, J. I., Kokkoris, G. D., Logofet, D. O., McKane, A. J., Montoya, J. and Petchey, O. L. 2004: Interaction strengths in food webs: Issues and opportunities. Journal of Animal Ecology. 73, 585-598.
Brose, U., E. L. Berlow, and N. D. Martinez. 2005. Scaling up keystone effects from simple to complex ecological networks. Ecology Letters. 8: 1317-1325.
Navarrete, S.A. and Berlow, E. L. 2006. Variable interaction strengths stabilize marine community structure. Ecology Letters. 9: 526-536. (Cover Photo)
Berlow, E.L., U. Brose, N.D. Martinez. 2008. The “Goldilocks factor” in food webs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. 105: 4079-4080.
Berlow, E. L., J. A. Dunne, N.D. Martinez, P.B. Stark, R.J. Williams, and U. Brose. 2009. Simple prediction of interaction strengths in complex food webs. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science 106: 187-191.