Modeling the persistence of small populations of strongly interdependent species: Figs and fig wasps;Modelando la supervivencia de pequenas poblaciones de especies fuertemente interdependientes: El caso de los ficus y sus polinizadores

Conservation Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 204-213

  Anstett, Marie Charlotte ^a   Hossaert McKey, Martine ^a   McKey, Doyle ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIG; FIG WASP; POPULATION PERSISTENCE;

AGAONIDAE; FICUS; HYMENOPTERA; MORACEAE;

EID: 0030749847     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1739.1997.95436.x     Document Type: Article

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