How different link weights affect the structure of quantitative flower-visitation networks

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 500-508

  Castro Urgal, Rocío ^a   Tur, Cristina ^a   Albrecht, Matthias ^a   Traveset, Anna ^a  

^a INSTITUTO MEDITERRÁNEO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Flower abundance; Interaction strength; Network parameters; Plant pollinator interactions; Quantitative networks

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867692695     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2012.08.002     Document Type: Article

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