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Networks are inherent in all complex systems. Patterns of interactions influence system behaviour. Many kinds of large scale patterns emerge from local interactions, including critical collapse. Ecosystems are really interconnected networks of many kinds, so changed conditions in one network can affect the entire ecosystem. One example of this was the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park, which initiated a trophic cascade that transformed the landscape.
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Here the word “separation” implies the shortest path between two nodes, so the diameter is the longest shortest path between pairs of nodes (taken over all pairs).
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Green, D.G., Klomp, N.I., Rimmington, G., Sadedin, S. (2020). Oh, What a Tangled Web … Complex Networks in Ecology. In: Complexity in Landscape Ecology. Landscape Series, vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-46773-9_4
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