Asymmetric specialization and extinction risk in plant-flower visitor webs: A matter of morphology or abundance?

Oecologia

Volumn 151, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 442-453

  Stang, Martina ^a   Klinkhamer, Peter G L ^a   Van Der Meijden, Eddy ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ecological generalization and specialization; Flower visitation web; Null models; Plant pollinator network; Size constraints

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; EXTINCTION RISK; FLOWER VISITING; GENERALIST; MORPHOLOGY; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; SPECIALIST;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOWER; INSECT; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUTHERN EUROPE; SPECIES EXTINCTION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; EXTINCTION, BIOLOGICAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLOWERS; INSECTS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD;

EID: 33847645509     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-006-0585-y     Document Type: Article

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