Ecological, historical and evolutionary determinants of modularity in weighted seed-dispersal networks

Ecology Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 454-463

  Schleuning, Matthias ^a   Ingmann, Lili ^a   Strauß, Rouven ^b   Fritz, Susanne A ^a   Dalsgaard, Bo ^c   Matthias Dehling, D ^a   Plein, Michaela ^a,d   Saavedra, Francisco ^a,e   Sandel, Brody ^f   Svenning, Jens Christian ^f   Böhning Gaese, Katrin ^a,g   Dormann, Carsten F ^h  

^a BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^e MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^f AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^g GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^h UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Avian seed dispersal; Current and past climate; Ecological networks; Evolutionary history; Macroecology; Modularity; Phylogeny; Seasonality; Traits; Weighted bipartite networks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE VARIATION; EVOLUTIONARILY STABLE STRATEGY; PHYLOGENETICS; SEED DISPERSAL;

AVES;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AVIAN SEED DISPERSAL; BIRD; CLIMATE; CURRENT AND PAST CLIMATE; ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS; ECOSYSTEM; EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY; MACROECOLOGY; MODULARITY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEED DISPERSAL; TRAITS; WEIGHTED BIPARTITE NETWORKS;

AVIAN SEED DISPERSAL; CURRENT AND PAST CLIMATE; ECOLOGICAL NETWORKS; EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY; MACROECOLOGY; MODULARITY; PHYLOGENY; SEASONALITY; TRAITS; WEIGHTED BIPARTITE NETWORKS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIRDS; CLIMATE; ECOSYSTEM; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PHYSIOLOGICAL PROCESSES; SEED DISPERSAL;

EID: 84895524912     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12245     Document Type: Article

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