A common framework for identifying linkage rules across different types of interactions

Functional Ecology

Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 1894-1903

  Bartomeus, Ignasi ^a   Gravel, Dominique ^b   Tylianakis, Jason M ^c,d   Aizen, Marcelo A ^e   Dickie, Ian A ^f   Bernard Verdier, Maud ^f  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION BIOLOGY   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^d IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^e Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente Bariloche   (Argentina)

^f LINCOLN UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

functional traits; herbivory; interaction networks; mutualisms; parasitism; pollination; predation; trait matching; trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIODIVERSITY; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; HERBIVORY; INTERSPECIFIC INTERACTION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; MUTUALISM; NETWORK ANALYSIS; PARASITISM; POLLINATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PREDATION; TRITROPHIC INTERACTION;

EID: 85006295319     PISSN: 02698463     EISSN: 13652435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.12666     Document Type: Review

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