Do food web models reproduce the structure of mutualistic networks?

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Pires, Mathias M ^a   Prado, Paulo I ^a   Guimarães Jr , Paulo R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIPARTITE COOPERATIOON NETWORK; CASCADE MODEL; FOOD WEB; MINIMUM POTENTIAL MODEL; MODEL; NICHE MODEL; NONHUMAN; NORMAL MODEL ERROR; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES RICHNESS; SYMBIOSIS; SYSTEMATIC ERROR; FOOD CHAIN; STATISTICAL MODEL; THEORETICAL MODEL;

FOOD CHAIN; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 80355136550     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0027280     Document Type: Article

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