Disentangling nestedness disentangled

Nature

Volumn 500, Issue 7463, 2013, Pages

  Saavedra, Serguei ^a   Stouffer, Daniel B ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL RESEARCH; NESTEDNESS; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; SYMBIOSIS;

ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, THEORETICAL;

EID: 84882993492     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12380     Document Type: Note

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