Emergence of structural and dynamical properties of ecological mutualistic networks

Nature

Volumn 500, Issue 7463, 2013, Pages 449-452

  Suweis, Samir ^a   Simini, Filippo ^b,c   Banavar, Jayanth R ^d   Maritan, Amos ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BUDAPEST UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY AND ECONOMICS   (Hungary)

^d University of Maryland   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; EMERGENCE; GENERALIST; MUTUALISM; NESTEDNESS; OPTIMIZATION; SPECIALIST;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL MUTUALISTIC NETWORK; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RARE SPECIES; SYMBIOSIS;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOTA; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84882999707     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature12438     Document Type: Article

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