Jörg Albrecht, Alice Classen, Maximilian Vollstädt, Antonia Mayr, Neduvoto Piniel Mollel, David Schellenberger Costa, Hamadi Iddi Dulle, Markus Fischer, Andreas Hemp, Kim M. Howell, Michael Kleyer, Thomas Nauss, Marcell K. Peters, Marco Tschapka, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Katrin Böhning-Gaese, Matthias Schleuning
- Species’ functional traits set the blueprint for pair-wise interactions in ecological networks. Yet, it is unknown to what extent the functional diversity of plant and animal communities controls network assembly along environmental gradients in real-world ecosystems. Here we address this question with a unique dataset of mutualistic bird–fruit, bird–flower and insect–flower interaction networks and associated functional traits of 200 plant and 282 animal species sampled along broad climate and land-use gradients on Mt. Kilimanjaro. We show that plant functional diversity is mainly limited by precipitation, while animal functional diversity is primarily limited by temperature. Furthermore, shifts in plant and animal functional diversity along the elevational gradient control the niche breadth and partitioning of the respective other trophic level. These findings reveal that climatic constraints on the functional diversity of either plants or animals determine the relative importance of bottom-up and top-down control in plant–animal interaction networks.
MetadatenVerfasserangaben: | Jörg AlbrechtORCiDGND, Alice Classen, Maximilian Vollstädt, Antonia Mayr, Neduvoto Piniel Mollel, David Schellenberger Costa, Hamadi Iddi Dulle, Markus Fischer, Andreas Hemp, Kim M. Howell, Michael Kleyer, Thomas NaussORCiDGND, Marcell K. Peters, Marco Tschapka, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Katrin Böhning-GaeseORCiDGND, Matthias SchleuningORCiDGND |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-486815 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05610-w |
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ISSN: | 2041-1723 |
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Pubmed-Id: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30093613 |
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Titel des übergeordneten Werkes (Englisch): | Nature Communications |
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Verlag: | Nature Publishing Group UK |
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Verlagsort: | [London] |
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Dokumentart: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
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Sprache: | Englisch |
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Jahr der Fertigstellung: | 2018 |
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Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 09.08.2018 |
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Veröffentlichende Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
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Datum der Freischaltung: | 17.01.2019 |
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Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | Community ecology; Ecological networks; Ecology; Ecosystem ecology |
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Jahrgang: | 9 |
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Ausgabe / Heft: | 1, Art. 3177 |
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Seitenzahl: | 10 |
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Erste Seite: | 1 |
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Letzte Seite: | 10 |
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Bemerkung: | Open Access: This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
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HeBIS-PPN: | 446229563 |
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Institute: | Angeschlossene und kooperierende Institutionen / Senckenbergische Naturforschende Gesellschaft |
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| Biowissenschaften / Institut für Ökologie, Evolution und Diversität |
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| Fachübergreifende Einrichtungen / Biodiversität und Klima Forschungszentrum (BiK-F) |
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DDC-Klassifikation: | 5 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 58 Pflanzen (Botanik) / 580 Pflanzen (Botanik) |
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Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
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Lizenz (Deutsch): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |
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