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Research in the past few decades has uncovered powerful generalities in the structure of many natural and built networks. Now, a study describes how certain structural properties of networks may cause them to endure or collapse over time.

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Fig. 1: Network of interspecies connections in a food web.

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  1. Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Neo D. Martinez

  2. Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

    Neo D. Martinez

  3. Coral Gardeners, Moorea, French Polynesia

    Richard J. Williams

  4. Vibrant Data Labs, Berkeley, CA, USA

    Richard J. Williams

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Martinez, N.D., Williams, R.J. From networks to networking. Nat. Phys. 19, 936–937 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-023-02073-9

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