Nested species interactions promote feasibility over stability during the assembly of a pollinator community

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 997-1007

  Saavedra, Serguei ^a,b   Rohr, Rudolf P ^c   Olesen, Jens M ^d   Bascompte, Jordi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Coexistence; Feasibility; Global stability; Mutualistic networks; Mutualistic strength; Nestedness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958884396     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1930     Document Type: Article

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