Trait evolution, resource specialization and vulnerability to plant extinctions among Antillean hummingbirds

• Published in: Proceedings of the Royal Society. B, Biological sciences Vol. 285; no. 1875; p. 20172754
• Main Authors: Dalsgaard, Bo, Kennedy, Jonathan D., Simmons, Benno I., Baquero, Andrea C., Martín González, Ana M., Timmermann, Allan, Maruyama, Pietro K., McGuire, Jimmy A., Ollerton, Jeff, Sutherland, William J., Rahbek, Carsten
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England The Royal Society 28.03.2018; The Royal Society Publishing
• Edition: Royal Society (Great Britain)
• Subjects: Animals; Beak; Biological Evolution; Birds - anatomy & histology; Birds - physiology; Body Size; Colonization; Confidence Intervals; Divergence; Ecology; Endemics; Extinction; Extinction, Biological; Flowers - anatomy & histology; Flowers - physiology; Food plants; Island Biology; Islands; Linear Models; Low temperature; Lowlands; Mountains; Mutualistic Networks; Nectar; Plant Nectar; Pollination; Predictions; Rainfall; Specialization; Species; Species Specificity; Taxon Cycles; Temperature; Threatened species; Trochilidae; West Indies; West Indies; Lesser Antilles; island biology; specialization; mountains; taxon cycles; endemics; mutualistic networks

Species traits are thought to predict feeding specialization and the vulnerability of a species to extinctions of interaction partners, but the context in which a species evolved and currently inhabits may also matter. Notably, the predictive power of traits may require that traits evolved to fit in...