Exploring the evolutionary signature of food webs' backbones using functional traits

Recognized in riva2026random as the first application of RDPG to ecological networks, showing that latent positions capture evolutionary signatures in food webs and grounding the ecological motivation for learning their dynamics.

Used in riva2026intensity to point readers toward an earlier species-level analysis that projects ecological roles into resource and consumer subspaces, motivating the two-space structure underlying the IDPG model.