Network properties of an epiphyte metacommunity

Journal of Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1142-1151

  Burns, K C ^a  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Commensalisms; Degree distribution; Epiphyte; Host; Metacommunity; Nestedness; Null model

Indexed keywords

COMMENSALISM; EPIPHYTE; HOST PLANT; METAPOPULATION; NESTEDNESS; NETWORK ANALYSIS; POLLINATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; RECRUITMENT; SEED DISPERSAL; SUCCESSION; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

AUSTRALASIA; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 34547985306     PISSN: 00220477     EISSN: 13652745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2745.2007.01267.x     Document Type: Article

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