Large-scale assessment of commensalistic–mutualistic associations between African birds and herbivorous mammals using internet photos

Birds sitting or feeding on live large African herbivorous mammals are a visible, yet quite neglected, type of commensalistic–mutualistic association. Here, we investigate general patterns in such relationships at large spatial and taxonomic scales. To obtain large-scale data, an extensive internet-...

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Main Authors: Peter Mikula, Jiří Hadrava, Tomáš Albrecht, Piotr Tryjanowski
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2018-03-01
Series:PeerJ
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Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/4520.pdf