Characterization of topological keystone species. Local, global and "meso-scale" centralities in food webs

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 48-57

  Estrada, Ernesto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Betweenness; Centrality; Closeness; Ecoinformatics; Eigenvector; Network structure; Robustness; Subgraph centrality

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247607261     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2007.02.018     Document Type: Article

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