Global patterns of interaction specialization in bird– flower networks

• Main Authors: Zanata, Thais B., Dalsgaard, Bo, Passos, Fernando C., Cotton, Peter A., Roper, James J., Maruyama, Pietro K., Fischer, Erich, Schleuning, Matthias, González, Ana M. Martín, Vizentin-Bugoni, Jeferson, Franklin, Donald C., Abrahamczyk, Stefan, Alárcon, Ruben, Araujo, Andréa C., Araújo, Francielle P., Azevedo-Junior, Severino Mendes de, Baquero, Andrea C., Carstensen, Daniel W., Chupil, Henrique, Coelho, Aline G., Hořák, David, Ingversen, Tanja T., Janeček, Štěpán, Kohler, Glauco, Lara, Carlos, Las-Casas, Flor M. G., Lopes, Ariadna V., Machado, Adriana O., Machado, Caio G., Machado, Isabel C., Maglianesi, María A., Malucelli, Tiago S., Mohd-Azlan, Jayasilan, Moura, Alan C., Oliveira, Genilda M., Oliveira, Paulo E., Ornelas, Juan Francisco, Riegert, Jan, Rodrigues, Licléia C., Rosero-Lasprilla, Liliana, Sazima, Ana M. Rui, Marlies, Sedláček, Ondřej, Timmermann, Allan, Zhiheng, Wang, Watts, Stella, Rahbek, Carsten, Varassin, Isabela G.
• Format: E-Article
• Language: English
• Published: Blackwell Publishing Inc. 2017
• Subjects: QL Zoology
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/19440/1/9.%20Zanata%20et%20al%202017%20Network_Biogeography%20%28abstrak%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/19440/; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1365-2699

Aim: Among the world’s three major nectar-feeding bird taxa, hummingbirds are the most phenotypically specialized for nectarivory, followed by sunbirds, while the honeyeaters are the least phenotypically specialized taxa. We tested whether this phenotypic specialization gradient is also found in the...