Communications Biology (Nov 2022)

Plant-frugivore network simplification under habitat fragmentation leaves a small core of interacting generalists

  • Wande Li,
  • Chen Zhu,
  • Ingo Grass,
  • Diego P. Vázquez,
  • Duorun Wang,
  • Yuhao Zhao,
  • Di Zeng,
  • Yi Kang,
  • Ping Ding,
  • Xingfeng Si

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-04198-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Smaller communities, such as those on islands, under ecological network simplification reduce interactions between specialist organisms.