Biology, methodology or chance? The degree distributions of bipartite ecological networks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Williams, Richard J ^a  

^a MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNITY; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOSTATISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGREE DISTRIBUTION; FOOD WEB; MAXIMUM ENTROPY NULL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PLANT ANIMAL INTERACTION; PLANT COMMUNITY; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; PLANT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; METHODS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 79952288065     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017645     Document Type: Article

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