Here are some good starting points:

Bascompte, J., & Jordano, P. (2014). Mutualistic networks (1st ed.). Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Beckett, S. J. (2015). Nestedness and Modularity in Bipartite Networks (University of Exeter). Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/10871/17913

Dormann, C. F., Gruber, B., & Fründ, J. (2008). Introducing the bipartite package: analysing ecological networks. R News, 8(2), 8–11.

Podani, J., Jordan, F., & Schmera, D. (2014). A new approach to exploring architecture of bipartite (interaction) ecological networks. Journal of Complex Networks, cnu002. doi: 10.1093/comnet/cnu002

In our recent published book you can find some good chapters related to this topic. Please check it out:

Dáttilo, W. and Rico-Gray, V. (Eds.) (2018). Ecological Networks in the Tropics: An Integrative Overview of Species Interactions from Some of the Most Species-Rich Habitats on Earth. ISBN: 978-3-319-68227-3. Springer. 201p.

Hi,

There is a paper to analyze network motifs:

Article Motifs in bipartite ecological networks: uncovering indirect...

and bmotif, an R package to perform analysis:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/302356v2.abstract

Kind regards from La Habana,

Diego

Hi,

There is an introduction of network indeces and bipartite package by Dr. Carsten Dormann (please check the pdf document):

https://rdrr.io/cran/bipartite/

Thanks a lot everyone! I think I can start with that but please, do continue to share.

Wesley Dáttilo would you mind sharing the pdf copy with me? If possible the book, if not the chapters of interest.

I will try to ask our librarians to get the hardcopy.

Best,

Dear Pierre, Eloi, Nathan Olivier , i’ll contact you via email

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Several researchers should be foucsed to quickly understand the network structure and formation mechanism. Hope it is helpful.

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2. Memmott, J. 1999. The structure of a plant‐pollinator food web. Ecology Letters, 2, 276-280.

3. Thébault, E., Fontaine, C. 2010. Stability of ecological communities and the architecture of mutualistic and trophic networks. Science, 329, 853-856.

4. Ollerton, J. 2017. Pollinator diversity: distribution, ecological function, and conservation. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution & Systematics, 48, 353-376.

Olesen, J.M., Bascompte, J., Dupont, Y.L., Jordano, P. 2007. The modularity of pollination networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 104, 19891-19896.

5. Jordano, P

6. Eklöf, A., Ute, J., Jason, K., Jordi, B., Rocío, C., Natacha, P. 2013. The dimensionality of ecological networks. Ecology Letters, 16, 577-583.

7. Dormann, F., Strauß, R. 2014. Detecting modules in quantitative bipartite networks: the QuanBiMo algorithm. Methods in Ecology & Evolution, 5, 90-98.

8. Bascompte, J., Jordano, P., Olesen, J.M. 2006. Asymmetric coevolutionary networks facilitate biodiversity maintenance. Science, 313, 431-433.

Bascompte, J., Jordano, P. 2007. Plant-animal mutualistic networks: The architecture of biodiversity. Annual Review of Ecology Evolution & Systematics, 38, 567-593. Bascompte, J., Jordano, P., Melián, C.J., Olesen, J.M. 2003. The nested assembly of plant-animal mutualistic networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 143-159. 9. Fortuna, M.A. Stouffer, D. B., Olesen, J. M., Jordano, P., Mouillot, D., Krasnov, B. R., Bascompte, J. 2010. Nestedness versus modularity in ecological networks: two sides of the same coin? Journal of Animal Ecology, 79, 811-817.

Article Introducing the bipartite Package: Analysing Ecological Networks