On the centrality and uniqueness of species from the network perspective

Biology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 570-573

  Lai, Shu Mei ^a,b,d   Liu, Wei Chung ^a,c   Jordán, Ferenc ^e  

^a ACADEMIA SINICA   (Taiwan)

^b INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^c INSTITUTE OF STATISTICAL SCIENCE   (Taiwan)

^d NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Centrality; Food web; Species importance; Uniqueness

Indexed keywords

COMPENSATION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; FOOD WEB; MEASUREMENT METHOD;

EID: 84864425768     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.1167     Document Type: Article

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