How plants connect pollination and herbivory networks and their contribution to community stability

Ecology

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 908-917

  Sauve, Alix M C ^a,b,c   Thébault, Elisa ^b   Pocock, Michael J O ^d   Fontaine, Colin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^d CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antagonism; Community stability; Herbivory network; Multiple interaction types; Mutualism; Network structure; Pollination network

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGICAL STABILITY; HERBIVORE; HERBIVORY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; MUTUALISM; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; HERBIVORY; INSECT; PLANT; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; SYMBIOSIS; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FOOD CHAIN; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; HERBIVORY; INSECTA; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; PLANTS; POLLINATION; SYMBIOSIS; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84963940270     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/15-0132.1     Document Type: Article

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