Global and regional ecological boundaries explain abrupt spatial discontinuities in avian frugivory interactions

• Published in: Nature Communications
• Main Authors: Martins, Lucas P., Stouffer, Daniel B., Blendinger, Pedro G., Böhning-Gaese, Katrin, Buitrón Jurado, Galo, Correia, Marta, Jordano Barbudo, Pedro D., Tylianakis, Jason M.
• Other Authors: Universidad de Sevilla. Departamento de Biología Vegetal y Ecología, Marsden Fund, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP), Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ), Brazilian Research Council, Rufford Small Grants for Nature Conservation, Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado da Bahia (FAPESB), European Research Council (ERC), Swiss National Science Foundation (SNFS), Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future (SAEF), Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft / German Research Foundation (DFG), Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia. Portugal, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (Argentina), Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 2023
• Subjects: Bia; Marsden; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://idus.us.es/handle//11441/146555

Species interactions can propagate disturbances across space via direct and indirect effects, potentially connecting species at a global scale. However, ecological and biogeographic boundaries may mitigate this spread by demarcating the limits of ecological networks. We tested whether large-scale ec...