Conservation of species interaction networks

Biological Conservation

Volumn 143, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 2270-2279

  Tylianakis, Jason M ^a   Laliberté, Etienne ^a   Nielsen, Anders ^b   Bascompte, Jordi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Climate change; Food web; Global change; Global warming; Invasion; Land use change; Mutualism; Parasitoid; Pollination

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; CLIMATE CHANGE; FOOD WEB; INVASIVE SPECIES; LAND USE CHANGE; MUTUALISM; SAMPLING; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

EID: 77955919303     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.12.004     Document Type: Article

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