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Biotic architecture

Network structure

The composition and organization of organisms and their ecological relationships within a system, including trophic and other interactions that influence ecological processes and functions. In this framework, biotic architecture is distinguished analytically from spatial architecture: the former describes the organization of organisms and their interactions, while the latter describes the physical organization of the landscape in which those relationships occur.

Pascual, M., & Dunne, J. A. (Eds.). (2006). Ecological Networks: Linking Structure to Dynamics in Food Webs. Oxford University Press. Bascompte, J. (2009). Disentangling the web of life. Science, 325(5939), 416–419.