In a new paper published today in Nature, we show that Higher-Order Interactions (HOIs) can have dramatic effects on the dynamics of ecological systems.

Jacopo Grilli, György Barabás, Matthew J. Michalska-Smith & Stefano Allesina
Higher-order interactions stabilize dynamics in competitive network models
Nature, 2017

I have written a short “Behind the paper” post for the Nature Ecology & Evolution Community, which you can find here.

James O’Dwyer has written a News & Views commentary.

Rob Mitchum has covered this work for the Computation Institute’s website.

I have presented this work at several conferences. Here’s a video of my talk at the BES annual meeting in Liverpool (Dec 2016, ~30 mins):