Nature Communications (Aug 2018)
Plant and animal functional diversity drive mutualistic network assembly across an elevational gradient
- Jörg Albrecht,
- Alice Classen,
- Maximilian G. R. Vollstädt,
- Antonia Mayr,
- Neduvoto P. Mollel,
- David Schellenberger Costa,
- Hamadi I. Dulle,
- Markus Fischer,
- Andreas Hemp,
- Kim M. Howell,
- Michael Kleyer,
- Thomas Nauss,
- Marcell K. Peters,
- Marco Tschapka,
- Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter,
- Katrin Böhning-Gaese,
- Matthias Schleuning
Affiliations
- Jörg Albrecht
- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F)
- Alice Classen
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg
- Maximilian G. R. Vollstädt
- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F)
- Antonia Mayr
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg
- Neduvoto P. Mollel
- Institute of Plant Sciences, University of Bern
- David Schellenberger Costa
- Landscape Ecology Group, Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg
- Hamadi I. Dulle
- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F)
- Markus Fischer
- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F)
- Andreas Hemp
- Department of Plant Systematics, University of Bayreuth
- Kim M. Howell
- Department of Zoology and Wildlife Conservation, University of Dar-es-Salaam
- Michael Kleyer
- Landscape Ecology Group, Institute of Biology and Environmental Sciences, University of Oldenburg
- Thomas Nauss
- Environmental Informatics, Faculty of Geography, University of Marburg
- Marcell K. Peters
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg
- Marco Tschapka
- Institute for Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Genomics, University of Ulm
- Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
- Department of Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology, Biocenter, University of Würzburg
- Katrin Böhning-Gaese
- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F)
- Matthias Schleuning
- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F)
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05610-w
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
Differential responses of plant and animal functional diversity to climatic variation could affect trait matching in mutualistic interactions. Here, Albrecht et al. show that network structure varies across an elevational gradient owing to bottom-up and top-down effects of functional diversity.
