Forest loss and habitat changes reduce hummingbird functional diversity and the specialization of their interactions with plants in the tropical Andes

• Published in: Global ecology and conservation Vol. 54; p. e03062
• Main Authors: Carranza-Quiceno, Jaime Andrés, Castaño, John Harold, Muriel-Ruiz, Sandra Bibiana, Maruyama, Pietro Kiyoshi, Armbrecht, Inge
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.10.2024; Elsevier
• Subjects: Agricultural landscapes; Coffee agroecosystems; Ecological networks; Forest; Landscape fragmentation; Forest; Coffee agroecosystems; Agricultural landscapes; Landscape fragmentation; Ecological networks

The expansion of agricultural landscapes is one of the main drivers of biodiversity loss around the world; the environmental gradients resulting from these landscape changes, however, allow an assessment of how biodiversity responds to environmental change. Functional diversity and mutualistic inter...