Functional outcomes of mutualistic network interactions: A community‐scale study of frugivore gut passage on germination
Abstract
Current understanding of mutualistic networks is grounded largely in data on interaction frequency, yet mutualistic network dynamics are also shaped by interaction quality—the functional outcomes of individual interactions on reproduction and survival. The difficulty of obtaining data on functional outcomes has resulted in limited understanding of functional variation among a network's pairwise species interactions, of the study designs that are necessary to capture major sources of functional variation, and of predictors of functional variation that may allow generalization across networks.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Dec 31, 2018
- Source ID
- 10.1111/1365-2745.13108
Entities
People
- Evan C. Fricke
- Evan M. Rehm
- Haldre S. Rogers
- John Bender
Organizations
- Colorado State University
- Iowa State University
- Lincoln Park Zoo
- Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program
- University of California, Santa Barbara