eprintid: 3499
rev_number: 8
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datestamp: 2016-06-15 07:23:45
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type: article
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creators_name: Vivaldo, Gianna
creators_name: Masi, Elisa
creators_name: Pandolfi, Camilla
creators_name: Mancuso, Stefano
creators_name: Caldarelli, Guido
creators_id: gianna.vivaldo@imtlucca.it
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creators_id: guido.caldarelli@imtlucca.it
title: Networks of plants: how to measure similarity in vegetable species
ispublished: pub
subjects: QK
divisions: CSA
full_text_status: public
abstract: Despite the common misconception of nearly static organisms, plants do interact continuously with the environment and with each other. It is fair to assume that during their evolution they developed particular features to overcome similar problems and to exploit possibilities from environment. In this paper we introduce various quantitative measures based on recent advancements in complex network theory that allow to measure the effective similarities of various species. By using this approach on the similarity in fruit-typology ecological traits we obtain a clear plant classification in a way similar to traditional taxonomic classification. This result is not trivial, since a similar analysis done on the basis of diaspore morphological properties do not provide any clear parameter to classify plants species. Complex network theory can then be used in order to determine which feature amongst many can be used to distinguish scope and possibly evolution of plants. Future uses of this approach range from functional classification to quantitative determination of plant communities in nature.
date: 2016-06-07
date_type: published
publication: Scientific Reports
volume: 6
publisher: Nature Publishing Group
pagerange: 27077
id_number: doi:10.1038/srep27077
refereed: TRUE
issn: 2045-2322
official_url: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep27077
citation:   Vivaldo, Gianna and Masi, Elisa and Pandolfi, Camilla and Mancuso, Stefano and Caldarelli, Guido  Networks of plants: how to measure similarity in vegetable species.  Scientific Reports, 6.  p. 27077.  ISSN 2045-2322      (2016)  
document_url: http://eprints.imtlucca.it/3499/1/Vivaldo_online7giugno2016_srep27077.pdf