What Can Interaction Webs Tell Us About Species Roles?

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Sander, Elizabeth L ^a   Wootton, J Timothy ^a   Allesina, Stefano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIRECTED NETWORK; ECOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS; ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS; FOOD WEBS; GROUP MODELLING; MULTIPLE INTERACTIONS; NATURAL POPULATION; NETWORK STRUCTURES; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SCALE PATTERN;

ECOLOGY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOD WEB; HERBIVORE; HERBIVORY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITOID; POLLINATOR; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SPECIES COEXISTENCE; SYMBIOSIS; ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; FOOD CHAIN; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84938634134     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004330     Document Type: Article

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