Complex structure of pollinator-plant interaction-webs: Random, nested, with gradients or modules?

Apidologie

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 634-650

  Kratochwil, Anselm ^a   Beil, Marion ^b   Schwabe, Angelika ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSNABRÜCK   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bipartite web; Coherence; Modularity; Nested subsets; Real network structure

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; FLOWER; HONEYBEE; NESTEDNESS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; TURNOVER;

APIDAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 73249126227     PISSN: 00448435     EISSN: 12979678     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/apido/2009062     Document Type: Article

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