Network analysis in conservation biogeography: challenges and opportunities 

Publication review

This article highlights the potential value of network analysis for conservation biogeography and to focus attention on some of the challenges that lie ahead in applying it to conservation problems.

We briefly review existing literature and then focus on five important challenges for the further development of network-based approaches in the field.

Recent research has identified a variety of approaches that we expect to contribute to progress in each of our five challenge areas. We anticipate that some of the most exciting outcomes of attempts to meet these challenges will be frameworks that unite areas of research, such as food web analysis and metacommunity theory, that have developed independently.