Morphological and Spatio‐Temporal Mismatches Shape a Neotropical Savanna Plant‐Hummingbird Network

• Published in: Biotropica Vol. 46; no. 6; pp. 740 - 747
• Main Authors: Maruyama, Pietro K, Vizentin‐Bugoni, Jeferson, Oliveira, Genilda M, Oliveira, Paulo E, Dalsgaard, Bo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Association for Tropical Biology 01.11.2014; Blackwell Publishing Ltd; Wiley Periodicals Inc; Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
• Subjects: algorithms; Brazil; Cerrado; forbidden links; forests; habitats; modules; nectar; phenology; pollination; probability; QuanBiMo; savannas; spatial variation; temporal variation; Tropical Biology; tropics; Brazil

Complex networks of species interactions might be determined by species traits but also by simple chance meetings governed by species abundances. Although the idea that species traits structure mutualistic networks is appealing, most studies have found abundance to be a major structuring mechanism u...