Global patterns of interaction specialization in bird–flower networks

• Published in: Journal of biogeography Vol. 44; no. 8; pp. 1891 - 1910
• Main Authors: Zanata, Thais B., Dalsgaard, Bo, Passos, Fernando C., Cotton, Peter A., Roper, James J., Maruyama, Pietro K., Fischer, Erich, Schleuning, Matthias, González, Ana M. Martín, Vizentin-Bugoni, Jeferson, Franklin, Donald C., Abrahamczyk, Stefan, Alárcon, Ruben, Araujo, Andréa C., Araújo, Francielle P., de. Azevedo-Junior, Severino M., Baquero, Andrea C., Böhning-Gaese, Katrin, Carstensen, Daniel W., Chupil, Henrique, Coelho, Aline G., Faria, Rogério R., Hořák, David, Ingversen, Tanja T., Janeček, Štěpán, Kohler, Glauco, Lara, Carlos, Las-Casas, Flor M. G., Lopes, Ariadna V., Machado, Adriana O., Machado, Caio G., Machado, Isabel C., Maglianesi, María A., Malucelli, Tiago S., Mohd-Azlan, Jayasilan, Moura, Alan C., Oliveira, Genilda M., Oliveira, Paulo E., Ornelas, Juan Francisco, Riegert, Jan, Rodrigues, Licléia C., Rosero-Lasprilla, Liliana, Rui, Ana M., Sazima, Marlies, Schmid, Baptiste, Sedláček, Ondřej, Timmermann, Allan, Vollstädt, Maximilian G. R., Wang, Zhiheng, Watts, Stella, Rahbek, Carsten, Varassin, Isabela G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford John Wiley & Sons Ltd 01.08.2017; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: Africa; Asia; asymmetry; Australia; Biotic interactions; Birds; Communities; Feeding; Flora; Flowers; honeyeaters; hummingbirds; latitude; Meliphagidae; Modularity; Nectar; nectar feeding; Nectariniidae; Networks; Niche overlap; niche partitioning; North America; ornithophily; Pacific Ocean Islands; phenotype; Plant species; plant–animal interactions; sampling; Sampling methods; South America; Specialization; species diversity; Species richness; sunbirds; Taxa; Topography; Trochilidae; South America; Pacific Ocean Islands; Australia; Asia; North America; Africa

Aim: Among the world's three major nectar-feeding bird taxa, hummingbirds are the most phenotypically specialized for nectarivory, followed by sunbirds, while the honeyeaters are the least phenotypically specialized taxa. We tested whether this phenotypic specialization gradient is also found i...