Understanding the Web of Life: The Birds, the Bees, and Sex with Aliens

Interactions in food webs indicate the structure and stability of ecosystems. Now, new research uses these interactions to illustrate the vulnerability of pollination webs to invasive plants and pollinators.

• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  PLoS Biology

• Publication date

  2008-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1371/journal.pbio.0060047PMID 18303951PMCID 2253639
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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