The Structure of Plant-Animal Mutualistic Networks

Author

Jordi Bascompte, Pedro Jordano

Published

December 8, 2013

Doi

10.23943/princeton/9780691131269.003.0003

Jordi Bascompte, Pedro Jordano 2006. The Structure of Plant-Animal Mutualistic Networks. Princeton University Press eBooks 143–159. https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691131269.003.0003

Publication Details

Published in: Princeton University Press eBooks  Open Access: Yes

BibTeX

@inbook{RN57976,
   author = {Bascompte, J and Jordano, Pedro},
   title = {The structure of plant-animal mutualistic networks},
   booktitle = {Ecological networks},
   editor = {Pascual, M and Dunne, J},
   publisher = {Oxford, US},
   address = {Oxford University Press},
   pages = {143–159},
   abstract = {Plant-animal mutualistic networks can be described as bipartite graphs depicting the interactions between two distinct sets: plants and animals. These mutualistic networks have been found to be highly structured. Specifically, they show a nested pattern in which specialists interact with proper subsets of the species generalists interact with. This pattern is important for understanding coevolution in species-rich communities which can be reduced neither to pairs of coevolving species nor to diffuse, randomly-interacting assemblages. We discuss the dynamic implications of network structure from the points of view of coevolution, community ecology, and conservation biology.},
   year = {2006},
   type = {Book Section}
}