Specialization in plant-hummingbird networks is associated with species richness, contemporary precipitation and quaternary climate-change velocity

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Dalsgaard, Bo ^a,b,c   Magård, Else ^c   Fjeldså, Jon ^d   González, Ana M Martín ^e   Rahbek, Carsten ^b   Olesen, Jens M ^c   Ollerton, Jeff ^f   Alarcón, Ruben ^g   Araujo, Andrea Cardoso ^h   Cotton, Peter A ⁱ   Lara, Carlos ^j   Machado, Caio Graco ^k   Sazima, Ivan ^l   Sazima, Marlies ^l   Timmermann, Allan ^c   Watts, Stella ^f,m   Sandel, Brody ^c   Sutherland, William J ^a   Svenning, Jens Christian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^e Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^g CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS   (United States)

^h FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MATO GROSSO DO SUL   (Brazil)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^j CENTRO TLAXCALA DE BIOLOGÍA DE LA CONDUCTA   (Mexico)

^k DEPARTAMENTO DE CIÊNCIAS BIOLÓGICAS   (Brazil)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINAS   (Brazil)

^m UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIOGEOGRAPHY; BIOTIC STRESS; BIRD; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMMINGBIRD; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NONHUMAN; PLANT ANIMAL INTERACTION; POLLINATION; PRECIPITATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY; ANIMAL; GEOGRAPHY; PLANT;

RAIN;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; BIRDS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GEOGRAPHY; PLANTS; RAIN;

EID: 80053605229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025891     Document Type: Article

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