Linkage rules for plant-pollinator networks: Trait complementarity or exploitation barriers?

PLoS Biology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 0354-0362

  Santamaría, Luis ^a   Rodríguez Gironés, Miguel A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT DE LES ILLES BALEARS   (Spain)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FLOWER; NONHUMAN; PLANT; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; ANIMAL; APPETITE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; APPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FLOWERS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 33847005082     PISSN: 15449173     EISSN: 15457885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.0050031     Document Type: Article

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