Nature Communications (Nov 2022)
Global and regional ecological boundaries explain abrupt spatial discontinuities in avian frugivory interactions
- Lucas P. Martins,
- Daniel B. Stouffer,
- Pedro G. Blendinger,
- Katrin Böhning-Gaese,
- Galo Buitrón-Jurado,
- Marta Correia,
- José Miguel Costa,
- D. Matthias Dehling,
- Camila I. Donatti,
- Carine Emer,
- Mauro Galetti,
- Ruben Heleno,
- Pedro Jordano,
- Ícaro Menezes,
- José Carlos Morante-Filho,
- Marcia C. Muñoz,
- Eike Lena Neuschulz,
- Marco Aurélio Pizo,
- Marta Quitián,
- Roman A. Ruggera,
- Francisco Saavedra,
- Vinicio Santillán,
- Virginia Sanz D’Angelo,
- Matthias Schleuning,
- Luís Pascoal da Silva,
- Fernanda Ribeiro da Silva,
- Sérgio Timóteo,
- Anna Traveset,
- Maximilian G. R. Vollstädt,
- Jason M. Tylianakis
Affiliations
- Lucas P. Martins
- Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury
- Daniel B. Stouffer
- Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury
- Pedro G. Blendinger
- Instituto de Ecología Regional, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán and CONICET; CC 34
- Katrin Böhning-Gaese
- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F)
- Galo Buitrón-Jurado
- Laboratorio de Biología de Organismos, Centro de Ecología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC)
- Marta Correia
- Centre for Functional Ecology, Associate Laboratory TERRA, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra
- José Miguel Costa
- Centre for Functional Ecology, Associate Laboratory TERRA, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra
- D. Matthias Dehling
- Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL
- Camila I. Donatti
- Conservation International
- Carine Emer
- Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden Research Institute
- Mauro Galetti
- Department of Biodiversity, São Paulo State University – UNESP
- Ruben Heleno
- Centre for Functional Ecology, Associate Laboratory TERRA, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra
- Pedro Jordano
- Estación Biológica de Doñana, CSIC
- Ícaro Menezes
- Applied Conservation Ecology Lab, Santa Cruz State University
- José Carlos Morante-Filho
- Applied Conservation Ecology Lab, Santa Cruz State University
- Marcia C. Muñoz
- Programa de Biología, Universidad de La Salle
- Eike Lena Neuschulz
- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F)
- Marco Aurélio Pizo
- Department of Biodiversity, São Paulo State University – UNESP
- Marta Quitián
- Systematic Zoology Laboratory, Tokyo Metropolitan University
- Roman A. Ruggera
- Instituto de Ecorregiones Andinas (Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas - Universidad Nacional de Jujuy)
- Francisco Saavedra
- Instituto de Ecología, Facultad de Ciencias Puras y Naturales, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés
- Vinicio Santillán
- Centro de Investigación, Innovación y Transferencia de Tecnología (CIITT), Unidad Académica de Posgrado, Universidad Católica de Cuenca
- Virginia Sanz D’Angelo
- Laboratorio de Biología de Organismos, Centro de Ecología, Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC)
- Matthias Schleuning
- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (SBiK-F)
- Luís Pascoal da Silva
- CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO Laboratório Associado, Campus de Vairão, Universidade do Porto
- Fernanda Ribeiro da Silva
- Laboratory of Human Ecology and Ethnobotany, Department of Ecology and Zoology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, UFSC
- Sérgio Timóteo
- Centre for Functional Ecology, Associate Laboratory TERRA, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra
- Anna Traveset
- Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados (CSIC-UIB)
- Maximilian G. R. Vollstädt
- Section for Molecular Ecology and Evolution, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen
- Jason M. Tylianakis
- Centre for Integrative Ecology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Canterbury
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34355-w
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 13
Abstract
Vertebrate frugivores play important ecological roles. Here, the authors analyse a global dataset on plants and birds and find that plant-frugivore networks are more dissimilar, yet structurally consistent, across ecoregion and biome boundaries.
