Build-up mechanisms determining the topology of mutualistic networks
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Build-up mechanisms determining the topology of mutualistic networks.
The frequency distribution of the number of interactions per species (i.e., degree distribution) within plant-animal mutualistic assemblages often decays as a power-law with an exponential truncation. Such a truncation suggests that there are ecological factors limiting the frequency of supergeneralist species. However, it is not clear whether these patterns can emerge from intrinsic features o...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Theoretical Biology
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0022-5193
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.08.004