Alternative approaches of transforming bimodal into unimodal mutualistic networks. The usefulness of preserving weighted information

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 713-721

  Padrón, Benigno ^a,b   Nogales, Manuel ^b   Traveset, Anna ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE PRODUCTOS NATURALES Y AGROBIOLOGÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Degree centrality; Pollination; Seed dispersal; Species strength; Weighted and unweighted betweenness centrality

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 82255192544     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2011.09.004     Document Type: Article

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