Different tolerances of symbiotic and nonsymbiotic ant-plant networks to species extinctions

Network Biology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 127-138

  Dáttilo, Wesley ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD VERACRUZANA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Ecological networks; Loss species; Modularity; Mutualistic interactions; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 85000809938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22208879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.0000/issn-2220-8879-networkbiology-2012-v2-0015     Document Type: Article

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