Antagonistic interaction networks are structured independently of latitude and host guild

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 340-349

  Morris, Rebecca J ^a   Gripenberg, Sofia ^a,b   Lewis, Owen T ^a   Roslin, Tomas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Antagonistic network; Guild; Host parasitoid; Latitude; Matrix size; Network metrics; Network structure; Quantitative food web; Specialisation; Taxonomic diversity

Indexed keywords

HEXAPODA;

ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTIC NETWORK; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; GUILD; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HOST-PARASITOID; INSECT; LATITUDE; LETTER; MATRIX SIZE; NETWORK METRICS; NETWORK STRUCTURE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE FOOD WEB; SPECIALISATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TAXONOMIC DIVERSITY;

ANTAGONISTIC NETWORK; GUILD; HOST-PARASITOID; LATITUDE; MATRIX SIZE; NETWORK METRICS; NETWORK STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE FOOD WEB; SPECIALISATION; TAXONOMIC DIVERSITY;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; GEOGRAPHY; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; INSECTS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84892681094     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12235     Document Type: Article

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