Beyond species: Why ecological interaction networks vary through space and time

Oikos

Volumn 124, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 243-251

  Poisot, Timothée ^a,b   Stouffer, Daniel B ^a,b   Gravel, Dominique ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b QC Centre for Biodiversity Science   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PREDICTION;

EID: 84923362158     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/oik.01719     Document Type: Article

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