Parasites and Biological Invasions: Predicting Ecological Alterations at Levels From Individual Hosts to Whole Networks

Advances in Ecological Research

Volumn 57, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-54

  Medoc V ^a   Firmat, C ^b   Sheath, D J ^c   Pegg, J ^c   Andreou, D ^c   Britton, J R ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b UMR 1202 BIOGECO   (France)

^c BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Connectance; Enemy release; Food web; Introduced parasites; Quantitative networks; Stability; Stable isotopes; Topology

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008467260     PISSN: 00652504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/bs.aecr.2016.10.003     Document Type: Chapter

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