Plant and animal functional diversity drive mutualistic network assembly across an elevational gradient
| Autor: | David Schellenberger Costa, Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Hamadi I. Dulle, Neduvoto P. Mollel, Michael Kleyer, Marcell K. Peters, Kim M. Howell, Marco Tschapka, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Matthias Schleuning, Alice Classen, Markus Fischer, Maximilian G. R. Vollstädt, Jörg Albrecht, Thomas Nauss, Andreas Hemp, Antonia V. Mayr |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
| Předmět: |
0106 biological sciences
Insecta Climate Science Niche Biodiversity General Physics and Astronomy Flowers Biology 580 Plants (Botany) Tanzania 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Article General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Birds Ecology Ecological networks Ecosystem ecology Community ecology Species Specificity Animals Symbiosis lcsh:Science Ecosystem Phylogeny Trophic level Mutualism (biology) Multidisciplinary Community Altitude 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology fungi food and beverages Bayes Theorem Feeding Behavior General Chemistry Plants respiratory system Ecological network ddc:580 Research Design Animal ecology Fruit lcsh:Q human activities |
| Zdroj: | Nature Communications, 9:3177 Albrecht, Jörg; Classen, Alice; Vollstädt, Maximilian G. R.; Mayr, Antonia; Mollel, Neduvoto P.; Schellenberger Costa, David; Dulle, Hamadi I.; Fischer, Markus; Hemp, Andreas; Howell, Kim M.; Kleyer, Michael; Nauss, Thomas; Peters, Marcell K.; Tschapka, Marco; Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf; Böhning-Gaese, Katrin; Schleuning, Matthias (2018). Plant and animal functional diversity drive mutualistic network assembly across an elevational gradient. Nature communications, 9(1) Nature Publishing Group 10.1038/s41467-018-05610-w Nature Communications, Vol 9, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2018) Nature Communications |
| DOI: | 10.7892/boris.119241 |
| Popis: | Species’ functional traits set the blueprint for pair-wise interactions in ecological networks. Yet, it is unknown to what extent the functional diversity of plant and animal communities controls network assembly along environmental gradients in real-world ecosystems. Here we address this question with a unique dataset of mutualistic bird–fruit, bird–flower and insect–flower interaction networks and associated functional traits of 200 plant and 282 animal species sampled along broad climate and land-use gradients on Mt. Kilimanjaro. We show that plant functional diversity is mainly limited by precipitation, while animal functional diversity is primarily limited by temperature. Furthermore, shifts in plant and animal functional diversity along the elevational gradient control the niche breadth and partitioning of the respective other trophic level. These findings reveal that climatic constraints on the functional diversity of either plants or animals determine the relative importance of bottom-up and top-down control in plant–animal interaction networks. Differential responses of plant and animal functional diversity to climatic variation could affect trait matching in mutualistic interactions. Here, Albrecht et al. show that network structure varies across an elevational gradient owing to bottom-up and top-down effects of functional diversity. |
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