Interacting Guilds: Moving beyond the Pairwise Perspective on Mutualisms

American Naturalist

Volumn 162, Issue 4 SUPPL., 2003, Pages

  Stanton, Maureen L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Competition for partners; Indirect effects; Indirect interactions; Mutualism; Partner choice; Partner limitation; Partner quality; Path analysis; Population limitation

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL THEORY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MUTUALISM; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMBIOSIS;

ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 0242456758     PISSN: 00030147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/378646     Document Type: Conference Paper

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