BiMat: A MATLAB package to facilitate the analysis of bipartite networks

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 127-132

  Flores, Cesar O ^a   Poisot, Timothée ^b,c,d   Valverde, Sergi ^e,f   Weitz, Joshua S ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^d QC Centre for Biodiversity Science   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^f INSTITUTE OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY CSIC UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Complex networks; Ecological networks; Host parasite interactions; Microbial ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84941729287     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12458     Document Type: Article

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