Flexible foraging shapes the topology of plant-pollinator interaction Networks

Ecology

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1431-1441

  Spiesman, Brian J ^a   Gratton, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive foraging; Competition; Complementary specialization; Complex adaptive system; Flexible foraging; Interaction switching; Modularity; Nestedness; Niche partitioning; Optimal foraging

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARITY; FLOWER; FOOD PREFERENCE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NESTEDNESS; NICHE PARTITIONING; PLANT PRODUCT; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATOR; SPECIALIZATION;

UNITED STATES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FLORIDA; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT; POLLINATION; WISCONSIN;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; FLORIDA; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PLANTS; POLLINATION; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84971543866     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/15-1735.1     Document Type: Article

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