Ecological, historical and evolutionary determinants of modularity in weighted seed‐dispersal networks

• Published in: Ecology letters Vol. 17; no. 4; pp. 454 - 463
• Main Authors: Schleuning, Matthias, Ingmann, Lili, Strauß, Rouven, Fritz, Susanne A, Dalsgaard, Bo, Matthias Dehling, D, Plein, Michaela, Saavedra, Francisco, Sandel, Brody, Svenning, Jens‐Christian, Böhning‐Gaese, Katrin, Dormann, Carsten F, Gomez, Jose
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.04.2014; Blackwell
• Subjects: algorithms; Animal and plant ecology; Animal, plant and microbial ecology; Animals; Aves; Avian seed dispersal; Behavior, Animal; Behavior, Animal - physiology; Biological and medical sciences; birds; Birds - physiology; Climate; current and past climate; Dispersal; ecological networks; Ecology; Ecosystem; environmental impact; Evolutionary biology; evolutionary history; foraging; Foraging behavior; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; General aspects; History; macroecology; modularity; Phylogeny; physiology; Plant Physiological Phenomena; Seasonal variations; seasonality; Seed Dispersal; Seed Dispersal - physiology; Seeds; traits; Vertebrates: general zoology, morphology, phylogeny, systematics, cytogenetics, geographical distribution; weighted bipartite networks; Climate; Seeds; traits; Taxonomy; Environmental factor; Phylogeny; Case history; weighted bipartite networks; Dispersion; Vertebrata; ecological networks; modularity; Seasonal variation; Macroecology; evolutionary history; Aves; Avian seed dispersal; current and past climate; seasonality; phylogeny; macroecology

Modularity is a recurrent and important property of bipartite ecological networks. Although well‐resolved ecological networks describe interaction frequencies between species pairs, modularity of bipartite networks has been analysed only on the basis of binary presence–absence data. We employ a new...