Invading a mutualistic network: to be or not to be similar

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 6, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 4981-4996

  Minoarivelo, Henintsoa Onivola ^a,b   Hui, Cang ^a,c  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Disruptiveness; invasibility; invasiveness; mutualistic networks; resilience; robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 84977635884     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.2263     Document Type: Article

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