Publications

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1. Tang, S., Allesina, S., 20XX
   Persistence and Feasibility of Random Ecosystems
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2. Allesina, S., 20XX 
   Accelerating the pace of discovery by changing the peer review algorithm
   In review
   full text available arXiv
   Discussed by M. Buchanan in Nature Physics: "Come the revolution"
   
   PUBLISHED
   

1. Bodini, A., Bondavalli, C., Allesina, S. 2012.
   Cities as ecosystems: Growth, development and implications for sustainability.
   Ecological Modelling, in press

2. Martin-Gonzales, A.M., Allesina, S., Rodrigo, A.,  Bosch, J., 2012.
   Drivers of compartmentalization in a Mediterranean pollination network.
   Oikos, in press

3. Allesina, S.°, Tang, S°., 2012.
   Stability Criteria for Complex Ecosystems.
   Nature, 483:205-208.
   ° contributed equally
   A first draft available arXiv

4. Melian, C.J., Alonso, D., Allesina, S., Condit, R.S., Etienne, R.S., 2012.
   Does sex speed up evolutionary rate and increase biodiversity?
   PLoS Computational Biology, 8(3): e1002414.
   
   
5. Eklof, A., Helmus, M., Moore, M, Allesina, S., 2011
   Relevance of Evolutionary History For Food Web Structure.
   Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 279:1588-1596.
   
   
6. Baskerville, E.B., Dobson, A.P., Bedford, T., Allesina, S., Anderson, T.M, Pascual, M., 2011.
   Spatial Guilds in the Serengeti Food Web Revealed by a Bayesian Group Model.
   PLoS Computational Biology, 7(12): e1002321.
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7. Allesina, S., Levine, J.M., 2011
   Reply to Ferrarini: Strengths and weaknesses of simple competition models.
   Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 108:E346.
   
   
8. Allesina, S., 2011
   Measuring Nepotism Through Shared Last Names: the Case of Italian Academia
   PLoS One 6(8): e21160.
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   Media coverage:
   Nature, Science, Chicago Tribune, Corriere della Sera, TG1, Radio RAI, Radio24, ...

   Reviewed for 'Faculty of 1000' by A. di Franco and J. Clauder:
   In this really interesting and courageous paper, a prestigious Italian author (working abroad) contributes work that gives international resonance to a problem largely known by Italian people: nepotism. 

9. Allesina, S., 2011.
   Predicting trophic relations in ecological networks: a test of the Allometric Diet Breadth Model
   Journal of Theoretical Biology 279:161-168.
   full text available arXiv
   
   
10. Allesina, S., Levine, J.M. 2011
    A competitive network theory of species diversity
    Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 108:5638-5642.
    
    

    Media coverage:
    WBEZ, Cosmos, Santa Barbara Independent

    Reviewed for 'Faculty of 1000' by H. Muller-Landau and A. Gonzales:
    Muller-Landau: The results have the potential to change the way ecologists think about coexistence.

    Gonzales: This paper provides further intriguing evidence that the application of network theory in ecology can provide new insights into classical problems
    Full Reviews Here:  [...]
    
    

11. Rojas-Echenique, J., Allesina, S., 2011
    Interaction rules affect species coexistence in intransitive networks
    Ecology 92:1174-1180
    
    
12. Zook, A.E., Eklof A., Jacob, U., Allesina, S. 2011
    Food webs: ordering species according to body size yields high degree of intervality
    Journal of Theoretical Biology 271:106-113.
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13. Melian, C.J., Alonso, D., Vazquez, D.P., Regetz, J., Allesina, S., 2010
    Frequency-dependent selection predicts patterns of radiations and biodiversity
    PLoS Computational Biology 6(8): e1000892.
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14. Parker, J.N., Lortie, C., Allesina, S., 2010
    Characterizing a Scientific Elite: The Social Characteristics of the Most Highly Cited Scientists in Environmental Science and Ecology
    Scientometrics 85(1): 129-143.
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15. Allesina, S., Pascual, M., 2009
    Googling food webs: can an eigenvector measure species' importance?
    PLoS Computational Biology 5(9): e1000494
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    Media coverage:
    NY Times, BBC News, Der Spiegel, Wired...

    On the Radio:
    BBC WorldService, Radio24

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16. Scotti, M., Bondavalli, C., Bodini, A., Allesina, S., 2009.
    Using trophic hierarchy to understand food web structure.
    Oikos 118:1695-1702.
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17. Allesina, S., Pascual, M., 2009
    Food web models: a plea for groups
    Ecology Letters 12:652-662.
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18. Dobson, A., Allesina, S., Lafferty, K.D., Pascual, M., 2009.
    The assembly, collapse and restoration of food webs.
    Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B 364:1803-1806.
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19. Allesina, S., Bodini, A., Pascual, M., 2009
    Functional links and robustness in food web
    Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B 364:1701-1709.
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20. Bodini, A., Bellingeri, M., Allesina, S., Bondavalli, C., 2009
    Using food web dominator trees to catch secondary extinctions in action
    Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. B 364:1725-1731.
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21. Allesina, S., Alonso, D., Pascual, M., 2008
    A General Model for Food Web Structure
    Science 320(5876):658-661.
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    Supplementary Information
    
    

    Reviewed for 'Faculty of 1000' by J. Bascompte:
    This is a very important paper because it sets up a robust scheme with which to assess which model best reproduces the complexity of real food webs.[...]

    
    
22. Lafferty, K.D., Allesina, S., Arim, M., Briggs, C.J., DeLeo, G., Dobson, A.P., Dunne, J.A., Johnson, P.T.J., Kuris, A.M., Marcogliese, D.J., Martinez, N.D., Memmott, J., Marquet, P.A., McLaughlin, J.P., Mordecai, E.A., Pascual, M., Poulin, R., Thieltges, D.W., 2008.
    Parasites in food webs:the ultimate missing links.
    Ecology Letters 11:533-546
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23. Allesina, S., Pascual, M., 2008
    Network structure, predator-prey motifs, and stability in large food webs.
    Theoretical Ecology 1(1):55-64.
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    Reviewed for 'Faculty of 1000' by M. Holyoak:
    Food web theory just got really interesting again![...]

    
    
24. Peacor, S.D., Allesina, S., Riolo, R.L., Hunter, T., 2007
    A computational system, DOVE (Digital Organisms in a Virtual Ecosystem), to study phenotypic plasticity in ecosystems.
    Ecological Modelling 205(1-2):13-28.
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25. Allesina, S., Bodini, A., Bondavalli, C., 2006.
    Secondary Extinctions in Ecological Networks: Bottlenecks Unveiled.
    Ecological Modelling 194(1-3):150-161.
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26. Peacor, S.D., Allesina, S., Pascual, M., Riolo, R.L., 2006.
    Phenotypic plasticity increases species coexistence by altering fitness surface.
    PLoS Biology 4(11): e372.
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27. Bondavalli, C., Bodini, A., Rossetti, G., Allesina, S., 2006.
    Detecting stress at the whole ecosystem level. The case of a mountain lake: Lake Santo (Italy).
    Ecosystems 9(5):768-787.
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28. Scotti, M., Allesina, S., Bodini, A., Bondavalli, C., Abarca-Arenas, L.G., 2006.
    Effective trophic positions in ecological acyclic networks.
    Ecological Modelling 198(3-4):495-505.
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29. Allesina, S., Bodini, A., 2005.
    Food web scaling relation: efficiency revisited.
    Ecological Complexity 2(4):323-338.
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30. Allesina, S., Bondavalli, C., Scharler, U.M., 2005.
    The consequences of the aggregation of detritus pools in ecological networks.
    Ecological Modelling 189(1-2):221-232.
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31. Allesina, S., Bodini, A., Bondavalli, C., 2005.
    Ecological subsystems via graph theory: the role of strongly connected components.
    Oikos 110(1):164-176.
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32. Allesina, S., Ulanowicz, R.E., 2004.
    Cycling in ecological networks: Finn's index revisited.
    Computational Biology and Chemistry 28(3):227-233.
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33. Allesina, S., Bodini, A., 2004.
    Who dominates whom in the ecosystem? Energy flow bottlenecks and cascading exctinctions.
    Journal of Theoretical Biology 230(3):351-358.
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34. Allesina, S., Bondavalli, C., 2004.
    WAND: an Ecological Network Analysis user-friendly tool.
    Environmental Modelling and Software 19(4):337-340.
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35. Allesina, S., Bondavalli, C., 2003.
    Steady state of ecosystem flow networks: a comparison between balancing procedures.
    Ecological Modelling 165(2-3):231-239.
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Other Publications 

• Allesina, S., Azzi, A., Battini, D., Regattieri, A., 2010.
  Performance measurement in supply chains: new network analysis and entropic indexes.
  International Journal of Production Research, 48(8): 2297-2321.
  
• Allesina, S., 2009.
  Learning R The Practical Way.
  Book Review Ecology  90(8): 2335-2336.
• Allesina, S., 2007.
  Cycling and Cycling Indices
  For: S.E. Jorgensen (Editor) Encyclopedia of Ecology - Elsevier
• Allesina, S., Bodini, A., 2007.
  Ascendency
  For: S.E. Jorgensen (Editor) Encyclopedia of Ecology - Elsevier
• Battini, D., Persona, A., Allesina, S., 2007.
  Towards a use of network analysis: quantifying the complexity of supply chain networks.
  International Journal of Value Chain Management 1(1):75-90.
  
• Bodini, A., Bondavalli, C., Allesina, S., 2007.
  L'ecosistema e le sue relazioni. Idee e strumenti per la valutazione di impatto e ambientale e di incidenza.
  Franco Angeli, Milan - Italy.
  The ecosystem and its relations. Ideas and tools for environmental impact assessment. Textbook - In italian.
• Allesina, S., Zaccagnini, A., Bodini, A., 2001. Un modello di simulazione abbinato ad un algoritmo qualitativo per lo studio dei sistemi ecologici. (In Italian) S.It.E. (Italian Society of Ecology) Atti 2001 CDROM