The smallest of all worlds: Pollination networks

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 240, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 270-276

  Olesen, Jens M ^a   Bascompte, Jordi ^b   Dupont, Yoko L ^a   Jordano, Pedro ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clustering; Food web; Network; Path length; Small world

Indexed keywords

FLOWERING; FOOD WEB; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; REPRODUCTION;

ARTICLE; FLOWERING; FOOD WEB; PLANT; POLLINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; FLOWERS; INSECTS; LEAST-SQUARES ANALYSIS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN; REPRODUCTION;

MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 33646090388     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: 10958541     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2005.09.014     Document Type: Article

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