The functional roles of species in metacommunities, as revealed by metanetwork analyses of bird-plant frugivory networks.,Ecology Letters

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The functional roles of species in metacommunities, as revealed by metanetwork analyses of bird-plant frugivory networks.
Ecology Letters ( IF 8.8 ) Pub Date : 2020-05-20 , DOI: 10.1111/ele.13529
Hai-Dong Li _{1,

2} , Linfang Tang _{1,

3} , Chenxi Jia _{1,

3} , Marcel Holyoak ₄ , Jochen Fründ ₅ , Xiaoqun Huang ₁ , Zhishu Xiao _{1,

2}

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Understanding how biodiversity and interaction networks change across environmental gradients is a major challenge in ecology. We integrated metacommunity and metanetwork perspectives to test species’ functional roles in bird–plant frugivory interactions in a fragmented forest landscape in Southwest China, with consequences for seed dispersal. Availability of fruit resources both on and under trees created vertical feeding stratification for frugivorous birds. Bird–plant interactions involving birds feeding only on‐the‐tree or both on and under‐the‐tree (shared) had a higher centrality and contributed more to metanetwork organisation than interactions involving birds feeding only under‐the‐tree. Moreover, bird–plant interactions associated with large‐seeded plants disproportionately contributed to metanetwork organisation and centrality. Consequently, on‐the‐tree and shared birds contributed more to metanetwork organisation whereas under‐the‐tree birds were more involved in local processes. We would expect that species’ roles in the metanetwork will translate into different conservation values for maintaining functioning of seed‐dispersal networks.

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