TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schleuning, Matthias
A1  - Fründ, Jochen
A1  - Schweiger, Oliver
A1  - Welk, Erik
A1  - Albrecht, Jörg
A1  - Albrecht, Matthias
A1  - Beil, Marion
A1  - Benadi, Gita
A1  - Blüthgen, Nico
A1  - Bruelheide, Helge
A1  - Böhning-Gaese, Katrin
A1  - Dehling, D. Matthias
A1  - Dormann, Carsten F.
A1  - Exeler, Nina
A1  - Farwig, Nina
A1  - Harpke, Alexander
A1  - Hickler, Thomas
A1  - Kratochwil, Anselm
A1  - Kuhlmann, Michael
A1  - Kühn, Ingolf
A1  - Michez, Denis
A1  - Mudri-Stojnić, Sonja
A1  - Plein, Michaela
A1  - Rasmont, Pierre
A1  - Schwabe, Angelika
A1  - Settele, Josef
A1  - Vujić, Ante
A1  - Weiner, Christiane Natalie
A1  - Wiemers, Martin
A1  - Hof, Christian
T1  - Ecological networks are more sensitive to plant than to animal extinction under climate change
T2  - Nature Communications
N2  - Impacts of climate change on individual species are increasingly well documented, but we lack understanding of how these effects propagate through ecological communities. Here we combine species distribution models with ecological network analyses to test potential impacts of climate change on >700 plant and animal species in pollination and seed-dispersal networks from central Europe. We discover that animal species that interact with a low diversity of plant species have narrow climatic niches and are most vulnerable to climate change. In contrast, biotic specialization of plants is not related to climatic niche breadth and vulnerability. A simulation model incorporating different scenarios of species coextinction and capacities for partner switches shows that projected plant extinctions under climate change are more likely to trigger animal coextinctions than vice versa. This result demonstrates that impacts of climate change on biodiversity can be amplified via extinction cascades from plants to animals in ecological networks.
KW  - Climate-change ecology
KW  - Community ecology
KW  - Ecological modelling
KW  - Ecological networks
Y1  - 2016
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/45076
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-450764
SN  - 2041-1723
N1  - This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in the credit line; if the material is not included under the Creative Commons license, users will need to obtain permission from the license holder to reproduce the material. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ © The Author(s) 2016
VL  - 7
IS  - Art. 13965
SP  - 1
EP  - 9
PB  - Nature Publishing Group UK
CY  - [London]
ER  -