Mistletoes Play Different Roles in a Modular Host-Parasite Network

Biotropica

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 171-178

  Genini, Julieta ^a   Côrtes, Marina C ^b   Guimarães, Paulo R ^c   Galetti, Mauro ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Brazilian Pantanal; Coevolution; Dispersal; Host mistletoe interaction network; Interaction asymmetry; Nestedness

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; COEVOLUTION; DICOTYLEDON; DOMINANCE; FRUGIVORY; HABITAT TYPE; HOST PLANT; HOST SPECIFICITY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTION; NESTEDNESS; PASSERINE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEED DISPERSAL;

BRAZIL; PANTANAL;

AVES; EUPHONIA; PHORADENDRON; PSITTACANTHUS; VISCUM ALBUM;

EID: 84857687876     PISSN: 00063606     EISSN: 17447429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7429.2011.00794.x     Document Type: Article

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