Downsizing of animal communities triggers stronger functional than structural decay in seed-dispersal networks

Autor: Isabel Donoso, Marjorie C. Sorensen, Pedro G. Blendinger, W. Daniel Kissling, Eike Lena Neuschulz, Thomas Mueller, Matthias Schleuning
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Nature Communications, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2020)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15438-y
Popis: Species loss from ecological networks can impair network stability and ecosystem function. Here the authors simulate animal extinctions in interaction networks between plants and avian frugivores, showing that frugivore extinctions have comparatively weak effects on network structure, but strongly reduce seed-dispersal distance.
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