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SUBMITTER: Montesinos-Navarro A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6895200 | biostudies-literature | 2019
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Montesinos-Navarro Alicia A Díaz Gisela G Torres Pilar P Caravaca Fuensanta F Roldán Antonio A
Communications biology 20191205
Although ecological networks are usually considered a static representation of species' interactions, the interactions can change when the preferred partners are absent (rewiring). In mutualistic networks, rewiring with non-preferred partners can palliate extinction cascades, contributing to communities' stability. In spite of its significance, whether general patterns can shape the rewiring of ecological interactions remains poorly understood. Here, we show a phylogenetic constraint in the rewi ...[more]