EcologicalNetworks.jl - analysing ecological networks of species interactions

Networks are a convenient way to represent many interactions among ecological entities. The analysis of ecological networks is challenging for two reasons. First, there is a plethora of measures that can be applied (and some of them measure the same property); second, the implementation of these measures is sometimes difficult . We present EcologicalNetworks.jl , a package for the julia programming language. Using a layered system of types to represent several types of ecological networks, this packages offers a solid library of basic functions which can be chained together to perform the most common analyses of ecological networks.