期刊
PLOS ONE
卷 6, 期 10, 页码 -出版社
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025891
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- Frimodt-Heineke Foundation
- Augustinus Foundation
- Knud Hojgaard Foundation
- Aarhus University
- Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
- The Danish Council for Independent Research verbar Natural Sciences
- Center for Massive Data Algorithmics
- Danish National Research Foundation Center of Excellence
- Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate
- Svend Fiedler & Wife Foundation
- Danish Council for Independent Research - Natural Sciences and Novozymes/World Wildlife Foundation-Denmark
- British Ecological Society
- Idea Wild
- The Biodiversity Trust
- The Anglo Peruvian Society
- The Leslie Church Bursary Fund
- The United States National Science Foundation
- The California Alliance for Minority Participation
- The Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado da Bahia (FAEP)
- The National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq)
- British Ornithologists' Union
- Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnologia
- FAPESB
- Danish Council for Independent Research - Natural Sciences [272-07-0242]
- World Wildlife Foundation
- Novozymes
- CEA
- CNRS
- EU [EVK2-CT-2002-00153]
- Programme National d'Etude de la Dynamique du Climat (PNEDC)
Large-scale geographical patterns of biotic specialization and the underlying drivers are poorly understood, but it is widely believed that climate plays an important role in determining specialization. As climate-driven range dynamics should diminish local adaptations and favor generalization, one hypothesis is that contemporary biotic specialization is determined by the degree of past climatic instability, primarily Quaternary climate-change velocity. Other prominent hypotheses predict that either contemporary climate or species richness affect biotic specialization. To gain insight into geographical patterns of contemporary biotic specialization and its drivers, we use network analysis to determine the degree of specialization in plant-hummingbird mutualistic networks sampled at 31 localities, spanning a wide range of climate regimes across the Americas. We found greater biotic specialization at lower latitudes, with latitude explaining 20-22% of the spatial variation in plant-hummingbird specialization. Potential drivers of specialization - contemporary climate, Quaternary climate-change velocity, and species richness -had superior explanatory power, together explaining 53-64% of the variation in specialization. Notably, our data provides empirical evidence for the hypothesized roles of species richness, contemporary precipitation and Quaternary climate-change velocity as key predictors of biotic specialization, whereas contemporary temperature and seasonality seem unimportant in determining specialization. These results suggest that both ecological and evolutionary processes at Quaternary time scales can be important in driving large-scale geographical patterns of contemporary biotic specialization, at least for co-evolved systems such as plant-hummingbird networks.
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