The dissimilarity of species interaction networks

Ecology Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1353-1361

  Poisot, Timothée ^a,b   Canard, Elsa ^c,d   Mouillot, David ^e,f   Mouquet, Nicolas ^c   Gravel, Dominique ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b QC Centre for Biodiversity Science   (Canada)

^c INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE L EVOLUTION   (France)

^d CIRAD   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ MONTPELLIER 2   (France)

^f JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

diversity; Food web; Metaweb; Species interaction networks

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; NOTE; PARASITOLOGY; RODENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RODENTIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84867479070     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12002     Document Type: Note

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