Asymmetric coevolutionary networks facilitate biodiversity maintenance

Science

Volumn 312, Issue 5772, 2006, Pages 431-433

  Bascompte, Jordi ^a   Jordano, Pedro ^a   Olesen, Jens M ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EARTH (PLANET); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL SCIENCES; PLANTS (BOTANY); SEED;

ASYMMETRIC COEVOLUTIONARY NETWORKS; BIODIVERSITY MAINTENANCE; COEVOLUTIONARY INTERACTIONS; POLLINATORS;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; COEXISTENCE; MUTUALISM; PLANT; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATOR; SEED DISPERSAL;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PLANT ANIMAL INTERACTION; POLLINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEED DISPERSAL; SPECIES RICHNESS; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN; SYMBIOSIS;

BIODIVERSITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLANTS; SEEDS; SIMULATION;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33645973545     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1123412     Document Type: Article

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