[x] Instead of saying that "ecologists are thinking of something", explain directly what interactions are.
[x] Fix references
Abstract
[x] (LA1) Remove "many"
[x] (LA2) Reformulate "how likely are they to interact"
[x] (LA4) Add "both"
[x] (LA5) Remove "general" and change "regarding" to "for"
[x] (LA6) Clarify "biological interpretation and statistical manipulation"
[x] (LA7) Change "in this contribution" to "we"
[x] (LA8) Remove "in the literature"
[x] (LA10) Change "realization" to "observation" or "presence"
[x] (LA13) Clarify "with potential interactions being scale-independent"
[x] (LA15) Remove "moreover"
[x] (LA15) Change "sampling" to "inferring"
[x] (LA17) Conjugate this sentence in the past tense
[x] (LA19) Clarify "documentation"
Introduction
[x] (L2) Reformulate "gargantuan"
[x] (L2) Remove "regardless of sampling effort"
[x] (L3) Remove "in nature"
[x] (L4) Add a reference to "the spatial and temporal uncoupling of species"
[x] (L6) Fix reference
[x] (L14-16) Fix 4 references
[x] (L28) Fix reference
[x] (L29) Expand counter-example
[x] (L29) Change "neutral" to "neutrally"
[x] (L33) Clarify "and of their emerging structure"
[x] (L33-34) Change "this is important..." to "which" and "one of the" to "a"
[x] (L34) Singularize "drivers" and remove "the"
[x] (L34) Fix reference
[x] (L35-36) Remove "which are", "help" and "colossal"
[x] (L42) Expand on this non-network example
[x] (L44-48) Fix 5 references
[x] (L52) Remove the first part of this sentence
[x] (L53) Change "especially" to "both" and "field and comp. ecologists" to "data producers and reusers"
[x] (L53) Add a reference to Brimacombe et al. (2023) in PlOS Biol about open network data
[x] (L53-55) Clarify this section
[x] (L55) Remove "to the best of our knowledge"
[x] (L57) Specify that it's all types of (interactions) probabilities
[x] (L59-60) Remove "in this contribution"
[x] (L61) Reformulate "approach to thinking about them" to something like "outline of a framework
[x] (L62) Prediction is not really a statistical behavior. Reformulate. Also in abstract.
[x] (L63) Add a comma
[x] (L64) Reformulate and clarify "implications"
[x] (L66) Change "most" to "other"
[x] (L68) Fix reference
[x] (L69) Remove "to each other"
[x] (L70) Remove "overall"
[x] (L70) But what are we suggesting? Guidelines?
Probabilistic representations of interactions
[x] (L76) Change "delineated" to "well defined"
[x] (L77) Reference Dunne 2006 book
[x] (L78) Reference Poisot 2012
[x] (L78) Change "analog" to analogues"
[x] (L80-81) Reformulate to sound more diplomatic
[x] (L83) Remove "type of"
Pairwise interactions
[x] (L92) Reference Carlos J. Melian
[x] (L94) Change "impacts" to "affects"
[x] (L97) Change "are actually" to "can be viewed as"
[x] (L110) Fix reference
[x] (L112) Add a reference
[x] (L116) Change "requirements" to "volume", "quality" or "diversity"
[x] (L117) More or less difficult to do probability inference?
[x] (L123) Reference Isabelle Boulangeat for the same thing on SDM
[x] (L126-131) One sentence is missing. No reason to think that everything is Bernoulli. $A_{i,j}$ ~ $Beta(\alpha, \beta)$ is possible. Many distributions between $0$ and $1$ (e.g., taking the logit as a link function).
Local networks
[x] Reformulate the concept of space. Clarify what continuous space means and discuss patches in the discrete case.
[x] (L133) Remove "as opposed to metawebs"
[x] (L134) Clarify "context-dependent"
[x] (L140) Relationship between space and time and environmental variables. Position of networks in the space of environmental variables. The focus of Gravel et al. (2019) is on environmental variables. Connection to table 1.
[x] (L140) Add z to the geographic coordinates. For example, hummingbirds (Weinstein and Graham (2017) A and B) and mosquito data (many papers on mosquito behavior as a function of elevation).
[x] (L151) Specify that probabilities scale positively with area
[x] (L157) Specify "joint" species distribution models
[x] (Eq1) Which hypothesis? Works if the probability of interaction is $0$ when species do not co-occur
[x] (L163) Fix reference
[x] (L176) Give an example
[x] (L177) Reference Brimacombe et al. (2023) PlOS Bio
[x] (Tbl1) Add $M$ = metawebs and $N$ = local networks to the legend
Metawebs
[x] (L198) Specify that the Canadian metaweb is a network of trophic interactions
[x] (L207) Specify "only"
[x] (L209) Models with more mechanisms?
[x] Discuss traits (sampling of phenotypes). What does it mean to observe an interaction or not? Which combinations of traits has been sampled? Are they representative of the distributions of traits of both species?
[x] Add one or two sentences discussing McLoad (2021) paper on the scaling of network structure with sample size. See #9
Statistical behaviors of probabilistic networks
[x] Rename section
Conclusion
[x] Add a short paragraph on the compressibility of probabilities and the partitioning of variance (next steps)
[x] Discuss the difference between an interaction being observed or realized. Every ecological process is stochastic but there is also a chance that a phenomenon is not detected.
General
Abstract
Introduction
Probabilistic representations of interactions
Pairwise interactions
Local networks
Metawebs
Statistical behaviors of probabilistic networks
Conclusion