Spatial structure of ant-plant mutualistic networks

Oikos

Volumn 122, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1643-1648

  Dáttilo, Wesley ^a,b   Guimarães, Paulo R ^a,c   Izzo, Thiago J ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANT; BIODIVERSITY; COEVOLUTION; CONVERGENCE; GENERALIST; LANDSCAPE; MUTUALISM; PLANT; TURNOVER;

AMAZONAS [BRAZIL]; BRAZIL;

EID: 84883557619     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2013.00562.x     Document Type: Article

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