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SUBMITTER: Dattilo W
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5136579 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dáttilo Wesley W Lara-Rodríguez Nubia N Jordano Pedro P Guimarães Paulo R PR Thompson John N JN Marquis Robert J RJ Medeiros Lucas P LP Ortiz-Pulido Raul R Marcos-García Maria A MA Rico-Gray Victor V
Proceedings. Biological sciences 20161101 1843
Trying to unravel Darwin's entangled bank further, we describe the architecture of a network involving multiple forms of mutualism (pollination by animals, seed dispersal by birds and plant protection by ants) and evaluate whether this multi-network shows evidence of a structure that promotes robustness. We found that species differed strongly in their contributions to the organization of the multi-interaction network, and that only a few species contributed to the structuring of these patterns. ...[more]