Global and regional ecological boundaries explain abrupt spatial discontinuities in avian frugivory interactions

Global and regional ecological boundaries explain abrupt spatial discontinuities in avian frugivory interactions

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.

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Main Authors:	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
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Nature Portfolio 2022-11-01
Series:	Nature Communications
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34355-w

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34355-w