A simple stochastic model for complex coextinctions in mutualistic networks: robustness decreases with connectance.

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Ecology Letters

• Publication date

  2015-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1111/ele.12394PMID 25431016
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