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-There is a short bibliography of the methods in the [package
-documentation][pdocref], and in the documentations of each function.
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-[pdocref]: http://poisotlab.io/EcologicalNetworks.jl/latest/#references
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 ## Getting started
 
 Install (from the package mode):