Emergence of structural patterns in neutral trophic networks

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Canard, Elsa ^a,b   Mouquet, Nicolas ^a   Marescot, Lucile ^c   Gaston, Kevin J ^d   Gravel, Dominique ^e   Mouillot, David ^b  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^b UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMMIGRATION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PHYLOGENY; PREDATION; PREDATOR PREY INTERACTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84865024697     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038295     Document Type: Article

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