Patterns of species turnover in plant-pollinator communities along a precipitation gradient in Patagonia (Argentina)

Austral Ecology

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 848-857

  Devoto, Mariano ^a   Medan, Diego ^a   Roig Alsina, Arturo ^b   Montaldo, Norberto H ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b MUSEO ARGENTINO DE CIENCIAS NATURALES BERNARDINO RIVADAVIA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Community; Mutualism; Precipitation gradient; Spatial turnover; Web

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; MUTUALISM; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATE FOREST;

PATAGONIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 69749126825     PISSN: 14429985     EISSN: 14429993     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1442-9993.2009.01987.x     Document Type: Article

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