BioConcepts

keystone mutualistsSchlüsselmutualisten (ger.)

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  category community

  1980

  Keystone mutualists are those organisms, typically plants, which provide critical support to large complexes of mobile links

  Gilbert, L.E. (1980). Food web organization and the conservation of neotropical diversity. In: Soulé, M.E. & Wilcox, B.A. (eds.). Conservation Biology. An Evolutionary-Ecological Perspective, 11-33: 23.