Nature Communications (Nov 2019)

Climate shapes mammal community trophic structures and humans simplify them

  • Manuel Mendoza,
  • Miguel B. Araújo

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12995-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Broad scale patterns in the distribution of animal community functional properties could be determined by climate and disrupted by human activities. Here the authors show global patterns in large-mammal trophic structure related to climate variation, which human activities simplify in predictable ways.