Long-term observation of a pollination network: Fluctuation in species and interactions, relative invariance of network structure and implications for estimates of specialization

Ecology Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 564-575

  Petanidou, Theodora ^a   Kallimanis, Athanasios S ^b   Tzanopoulos, Joseph ^c   Sgardelis, Stefanos P ^c   Pantis, John D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^c ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Apparent vs. real specialization; Coevolution; Ecological networks; Food web structure; Mediterranean scrub; Nestedness analysis; Network analysis; Sampling effort

Indexed keywords

COEVOLUTION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOOD WEB; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION; SPECIALIZATION; TOPOLOGY;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; GREECE; INSECT; OBSERVATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; GREECE; INSECTS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OBSERVATION; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 43249101636     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01170.x     Document Type: Article

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