Mutualism Disruption Threatens Global Plant Biodiversity: A Systematic Review.

As global environmental change accelerates, biodiversity losses can disrupt interspecific interactions. Extinctions of mutualist partners can create "widow" species, which may face reduced ecological fitness. Hypothetically, such mutualism disruptions could have cascading effects on biodiv...

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Main Authors: Clare E Aslan, Erika S Zavaleta, Bernie Tershy, Donald Croll
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3686776?pdf=render