A community is "nested" when species assemblages in less rich sites form nonrandom subsets of those at richer sites. Conventional null models used to test for statistically nonrandom nestedness are ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract We examined stomach contents of preserved specimens of larval Pacific giant salamander (Dicamptodon tenebrosus) and Cope's giant salamander (D ...

One role of theory is in guiding future experiments: What should we aim to measure? Which experimental results should we be surprised about? I will argue here that simple random networks models of ...