A hybrid behavioural rule of adaptation and drift explains the emergent architecture of antagonistic networks

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 282, Issue 1807, 2015, Pages

  Nuwagaba, S ^a   Zhang, F ^a   Hui, C ^a,b  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Adaptive behaviour; Functional response; Modularity; Nestedness; Node degree; Optimal foraging

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; EMERGENCE; FUNCTIONAL RESPONSE; HYBRID; NESTEDNESS;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOTA; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTION; FOOD CHAIN; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOTA; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84928902755     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.0320     Document Type: Article

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