Correlated loss of ecosystem services in coupled mutualistic networks

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Albrecht, Jörg ^a   Gertrud Berens, Dana ^a   Jaroszewicz, Bogdan ^b   Selva, Nuria ^c   Brandl, Roland ^a   Farwig, Nina ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c INSTITUTE OF NATURE CONSERVATION   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; MUTUALISM; OLD-GROWTH FOREST; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATOR; SEED DISPERSAL;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FOREST; FOREST FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; LOGGING; PLANT; PLANT SEED; POLLINATOR; SYMBIOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POLAND; POLLINATION; SEED DISPERSAL; TREE;

BIALOWIEZA FOREST;

BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECOSYSTEM; POLAND; POLLINATION; SEED DISPERSAL; SYMBIOSIS; TREES;

EID: 84900014155     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4810     Document Type: Article

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