Ecological Networks Across Environmental Gradients

Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics

Volumn 48, Issue , 2017, Pages 25-48

  Tylianakis, Jason M ^a,b   Morris, Rebecca J ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecosystem functioning; Food web; Global change; Mutualistic network; Spatial and temporal processes; Species interactions

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; FOOD WEB; GLOBAL CHANGE; MUTUALISM; PREDICTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 85033234055     PISSN: 1543592X     EISSN: 15452069     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-ecolsys-110316-022821     Document Type: Article

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