Evolution and coevolution in mutualistic networks

Ecology Letters

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 877-885

  Guimarães, Paulo R ^a,b   Jordano, Pedro ^c   Thompson, John N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

Author keywords

Coevolution; Complementarity; Convergence; Ecological networks; Evolutionary cascades; Generalists; Mutualisms; Pollination; Seed dispersal; Small world networks

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA;

EID: 84931749097     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2011.01649.x     Document Type: Article

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