Habitat loss alters the architecture of plant-pollinator interaction networks

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 2688-2696

  Spiesman, Brian J ^a   Inouye, Brian D ^b  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Community; Generalist; Landscape; Modularity; Mutualism; Nestedness; Specialist; Stability

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; EXTINCTION RISK; HABITAT LOSS; MUTUALISM; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; REGIONAL PATTERN; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POLLINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; FLORIDA; INSECTS; PLANTS; POLLINATION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84892177911     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0977.1     Document Type: Article

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