Food webs are built up with nested subwebs

Ecology

Volumn 91, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 3123-3130

  Kondoh, Michio ^a,b   Kato, Satoshi ^a   Sakato, Yoshikuni ^a  

^a RYUKOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Antagonistic network; Bipartite food web; Complementarity hypothesis; Complex network; Food web; Mutualism; Mutualistic network; Nestedness; Null model analysis; Trophic interaction

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; BIODIVERSITY; COEXISTENCE; COMPLEMENTARITY; FOOD WEB; MUTUALISM; NESTEDNESS; TROPHIC INTERACTION;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; FOOD CHAIN; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; FOOD CHAIN; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 78249282650     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/09-2219.1     Document Type: Article

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