Centrality measures and the importance of generalist species in pollination networks

Ecological Complexity

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 36-43

  Martín González, Ana M ^a,b   Dalsgaard, Bo ^b   Olesen, Jens M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Betweenness centrality; Closeness centrality; Generalization level; Keystone species; Pollination networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 77049083455     PISSN: 1476945X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecocom.2009.03.008     Document Type: Article

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