Opposed latitudinal patterns of network-derived and dietary specialization in avian plant–frugivore interaction systems

• Published in: Ecography (Copenhagen) Vol. 40; no. 12; pp. 1395 - 1401
• Main Authors: Dalsgaard, Bo, Schleuning, Matthias, Maruyama, Pietro K., Dehling, D. Matthias, Sonne, Jesper, Vizentin‐Bugoni, Jeferson, Zanata, Thais B., Fjeldså, Jon, Böhning‐Gaese, Katrin, Rahbek, Carsten
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Nordic Society Oikos 01.12.2017; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Biological effects; Birds; data collection; Diet; Ecological effects; Feeding; Food plants; Food preferences; Frugivores; fruiting; Fruits; Latitude; Modularity; Networks; Plant diversity; Plants (botany); Specialization; Species

Latitudinal patterns of biodiversity have been studied for centuries, but it is only during the last decades that species interaction networks have been used to examine the proposed latitudinal gradient of biotic specialization. These studies have given idiosyncratic results, which may either be bec...