The sudden collapse of pollinator communities

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 350-359

  Lever, J Jelle ^a,b   van Nes, Egbert H ^a   Scheffer, Marten ^a   Bascompte, Jordi ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Critical transitions; Hysteresis; Mutualistic networks; Nestedness; Pollinator decline

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONY COLLAPSE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRITICAL TRANSITIONS; ECOSYSTEM; HYSTERESIS; LETTER; MUTUALISTIC NETWORKS; NESTEDNESS; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR DECLINE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS; SYMBIOSIS;

CRITICAL TRANSITIONS; HYSTERESIS; MUTUALISTIC NETWORKS; NESTEDNESS; POLLINATOR DECLINE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLONY COLLAPSE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84892678460     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12236     Document Type: Article

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