Contrasting specialization-stability relationships in plant-animal mutualistic systems

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 258, Issue , 2013, Pages 65-73

  Benadi, Gita ^a   Blüthgen, Nico ^b   Hovestadt, Thomas ^a   Poethke, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Equilibrium; Mutualism; Pollination; Resilience; Specialization; Stability

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; INTER-SPECIFIC COMPETITIONS; MUTUALISM; POLLINATION; RESILIENCE; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIES INTERACTIONS; SYSTEM VULNERABILITY;

ANIMALS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ECOSYSTEMS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; STABILITY CRITERIA;

SYSTEM STABILITY;

ANIMAL COMMUNITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPETITIVE ABILITY; ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; EXTINCTION RISK; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MUTUALISM; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLLINATION; SPECIALIZATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84876319080     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.03.002     Document Type: Article

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