Species importance in a heterospecific foraging association network

Oikos

Volumn 122, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1325-1334

  Sridhar, Hari ^a   Jordán, Ferenc ^b   Shanker, Kartik ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BIRD; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; EVERGREEN FOREST; HETEROGENEITY; NETWORK ANALYSIS; TAXONOMY;

INDIA; WESTERN GHATS;

AVES;

EID: 84882734722     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00101.x     Document Type: Article

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