The ghost of nestedness in ecological networks

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Staniczenko, Phillip P A ^a   Kopp, Jason C ^a   Allesina, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); MUTUALISM; NESTEDNESS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STABILIZATION;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; COMPETITION; CONSUMER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGICAL NETWORK; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEST PREDATION; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SPECIES CONSERVATION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SYMBIOSIS;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84879137197     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms2422     Document Type: Article

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