Publications in Journals
17. Allesina, S., Bodini, A., Pascual, M., 2008
Functional links and robustness in food web
Phil. Trans. Royal Society B in press.
16. Bodini, A., Bellingeri, M., Allesina, S., Bondavalli,
C., 2008
Using food web dominator trees to catch secondary
extinctions in action
Phil. Trans. Royal Society B in press.
15. 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.[...]
14. 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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13. 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![...]
12. 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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11. 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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10. 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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9. 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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8. 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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7. Allesina, S., Bodini, A., 2005.
Food web scaling relation: efficiency revisited.
Ecological Complexity 2(4):323-338.
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6. 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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5. 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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4. 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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3. 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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2. 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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1. 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
e. Allesina, S., 2007.
Cycling and Cycling Indices
For: S.E. Jorgensen (Editor) Encyclopedia of Ecology - Elsevier
d. Allesina, S., Bodini, A., 2007.
Ascendency
For: S.E. Jorgensen (Editor) Encyclopedia of Ecology - Elsevier
c. 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.
b. 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.
a. 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