Does the role that frugivorous bird species play in seed dispersal networks influence the speed of evolutionary divergence?

Extensive work on plant–animal mutualistic networks has shown that species in such networks vary in their number of connections with other species, from highly connected species (‘super-generalists’) to those connected only to a few other species (‘specialists’). How these species with different deg...

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Main Authors: Hao Gu, Eben Goodale, Jin Chen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-01-01
Series:Global Ecology and Conservation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989414000821