Do mutualistic networks follow power distributions?

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 59-65

  Okuyama, Toshinori ^a  

^a RICE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Food web structure; Parameter estimation; Pollination; Seed dispersal

Indexed keywords

EID: 37349087840     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2007.06.006     Document Type: Article

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