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A bird pollinator shows positive frequency dependence and constancy of species choice in natural plant communities

scientific article

A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

scientific article published on 16 October 2019

A global synthesis reveals biodiversity-mediated benefits for crop production

A quantitative framework for identifying the role of individual species in Nature's Contributions to People

scholarly article

A research framework for projecting ecosystem change in highly diverse tropical mountain ecosystems

scientific article published on 30 January 2021

AVONET: morphological, ecological and geographical data for all birds

scientific article

Abiotic and biotic drivers of functional diversity and functional composition of bird and bat assemblages along a tropical elevation gradient

scientific article published on 04 September 2021

Abundance and trait-matching both shape interaction frequencies between plants and birds in seed-dispersal networks

scientific article published in 2023

Analyzing trophic ecosystem functions with the interaction functional space

scientific article published in May 2023

Animal functional traits: Towards a trait‐based ecology for whole ecosystems

scientific article published in 2023

Associations of bird and bat species richness with temperature and remote sensing‐based vegetation structure on a tropical mountain

scientific article published on 05 December 2021

At a loss for birds: insularity increases asymmetry in seed-dispersal networks

scientific article published in 2013

Avian seed dispersal may be insufficient for plants to track future temperature change on tropical mountains

scientific article published on 24 February 2022

Behavioural and morphological traits influence sex‐specific floral resource use by hummingbirds

scientific article published on 21 May 2022

Bioclimatic regions influence genetic structure of four Jordanian Stipa species.

scientific article published on 17 December 2012

Biodiversity and ecosystem functions depend on environmental conditions and resources rather than the geodiversity of a tropical biodiversity hotspot

scientific article published in 2021

Biodiversity components mediate the response to forest loss and the effect on ecological processes of plant–frugivore assemblages

scientific article published on 07 April 2020

Biodiversity, scenery and infrastructure: Factors driving wildlife tourism in an African savannah national park

scholarly article by Claudia Grünewald et al published September 2016 in Biological Conservation

Biogeography and anthropogenic impact shape the success of invasive wasps on New Zealand's offshore islands

scientific article published on 24 January 2020

Biotic interactions in species distribution modelling: 10 questions to guide interpretation and avoid false conclusions

scientific article published in 2018

Bird and insect pollinators differ in specialization and potential pollination services along disturbance and resource gradients

scientific article published in 2023

Birds optimize fruit size consumed near their geographic range limits

scientific article published on 19 July 2024

Birds protected by national legislation show improved population trends in Eastern Europe

Bracken fern facilitates tree seedling recruitment in tropical fire-degraded habitats

scientific article published in 2015

Changes in abundances of forest understorey birds on Africa's highest mountain suggest subtle effects of climate change

scientific article published in 2015

Climate and microhabitat shape the prevalence of endozoochory in the seed rain of tropical montane forests

scientific article published on 30 January 2023

Climate-land-use interactions shape tropical mountain biodiversity and ecosystem functions

scientific article published on 27 March 2019

Coexistence of plant species in a biodiversity hotspot is stabilized by competition but not by seed predation

article

Community‐wide seed dispersal distances peak at low levels of specialisation in size‐structured networks

scientific article published on 21 July 2020

Complementary ecosystem services provided by pest predators and pollinators increase quantity and quality of coffee yields

scientific article published on 5 February 2014

Constant properties of plant-frugivore networks despite fluctuations in fruit and bird communities in space and time

scientific article

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Defaunation effects on plant recruitment depend on size matching and size trade-offs in seed-dispersal networks

scientific article published in May 2017

Deforested habitats lack seeds of late-successional and large-seeded plant species in tropical montane forests

article

Different foraging preferences of hummingbirds on artificial and natural flowers reveal mechanisms structuring plant-pollinator interactions

scientific article

Different responses of taxonomic and functional bird diversity to forest fragmentation across an elevational gradient

scientific article published on 30 November 2018

Direct and indirect effects of climate, human disturbance and plant traits on avian functional diversity

article

Direct and indirect effects of elevation, climate and vegetation structure on bird communities on a tropical mountain

scientific article published in 2020

Direct and indirect effects of plant and frugivore diversity on structural and functional components of fruit removal by birds

article

Direct and plant-mediated effects of climate on bird diversity in tropical mountains

scientific article published on 13 November 2020

Distinct carbon sources indicate strong differentiation between tropical forest and farmland bird communities

scientific article

Downsizing of animal communities triggers stronger functional than structural decay in seed-dispersal networks

scientific article published on 27 March 2020

Ecological mechanisms explaining interactions within plant-hummingbird networks: morphological matching increases towards lower latitudes

scientific article published on 11 March 2020

Ecological networks are more sensitive to plant than to animal extinction under climate change

scientific article (publication date: 23 December 2016)

Ecological, historical and evolutionary determinants of modularity in weighted seed-dispersal networks

scientific article

Effects of Inbreeding, Outbreeding, and Supplemental Pollen on the Reproduction of a Hummingbird-pollinated Clonal Amazonian Herb

Effects of disturbance and altitude on soil seed banks of tropical montane forests

scientific article published in 2013

Effects of hummingbird morphology on specialization in pollination networks vary with resource availability

scientific article published in 2016

Elevation, Topography, and Edge Effects Drive Functional Composition of Woody Plant Species in Tropical Montane Forests

article

Elevation-dependent effects of forest fragmentation on plant-bird interaction networks in the tropical Andes

scientific article published on 27 November 2017

Environment and host identity structure communities of green algal symbionts in lichens.

scientific article

Environmental context determines the limiting demographic processes for plant recruitment across a species' elevational range

scientific article published on 02 July 2020

Experimental Assessment of Factors Limiting Seedling Recruitment of an Amazonian Understory Herb

article by Matthias Schleuning et al published January 2009 in Biotropica

Factors limiting montane forest regeneration in bracken-dominated habitats in the tropics

article by Silvia C Gallegos et al published December 2016 in Forest Ecology and Management

Flooding and canopy dynamics shape the demography of a clonal Amazon understorey herb

scholarly article by Matthias Schleuning et al published 31 July 2008 in Journal of Ecology

Food resources and vegetation structure mediate climatic effects on species richness of birds

scientific article published in 2014

Forest fragmentation and edge effects on the genetic structure of Clusia sphaerocarpa and C. lechleri (Clusiaceae) in tropical montane forests

scientific article published in 2013

Forest fragmentation and selective logging have inconsistent effects on multiple animal-mediated ecosystem processes in a tropical forest

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Forest recovery of areas deforested by fire increases with elevation in the tropical Andes

scientific article published in 2013

Fossil leaves reveal drivers of herbivore functional diversity during the Cenozoic

scientific article published in 2023

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scientific article published on 6 March 2020

Frugivore diversity increases frugivory rates along a large elevational gradient

scientific article published in 2015

FunAndes – A functional trait database of Andean plants

scientific article published in 2022

Functional and phylogenetic diversity and assemblage structure of frugivorous birds along an elevational gradient in the tropical Andes

scholarly article by D. Matthias Dehling et al published February 2014 in Ecography

Functional and phylogenetic diversity of bird assemblages are filtered by different biotic factors on tropical mountains

Functional diversity mediates macroecological variation in plant-hummingbird interaction networks

article

Functional importance of avian seed dispersers changes in response to human-induced forest edges in tropical seed-dispersal networks

scientific article

Functional relationships beyond species richness patterns: trait matching in plant-bird mutualisms across scales

article

Functional responses of avian frugivores to variation in fruit resources between natural and fragmented forests

article

Functional structure and specialization in three tropical plant-hummingbird interaction networks across an elevational gradient in Costa Rica

article

Functional traits shape plant–plant interactions and recruitment in a hotspot of woody plant diversity

scientific article published on 11 December 2023

Functionally specialised birds respond flexibly to seasonal changes in fruit availability

scientific article

Global and regional ecological boundaries drive abrupt changes in avian frugivory interactions

Global and regional ecological boundaries explain abrupt spatial discontinuities in avian frugivory interactions ⬇️

journal article from 'Nature Communications' published in 2022

Global patterns of interaction specialization in bird-flower networks

Global plant‐frugivore trait matching is shaped by climate and biogeographic history

scientific article published on 24 February 2022

Habitat Change and Plant Demography: Assessing the Extinction Risk of a Formerly Common Grassland Perennial

article

High Bird Species Diversity in Structurally Heterogeneous Farmland in Western Kenya

scholarly article by Ronald K. Mulwa et al published 14 May 2012 in Biotropica

High proportion of smaller ranged hummingbird species coincides with ecological specialization across the Americas

scientific article published in February 2016

Historical climate-change influences modularity and nestedness of pollination networks

article

How colorful are fruits? Limited color diversity in fleshy fruits on local and global scales

scientific article

Human-Induced Disturbance Alters Pollinator Communities in Tropical Mountain Forests

scientific article published in 2012

Importance of animal and plant traits for fruit removal and seedling recruitment in a tropical forest

article

Independent variation of avian sensitivity to climate change and trait‐based adaptive capacity along a tropical elevational gradient

scientific article published on 18 March 2022

Influence of habitat complexity and landscape configuration on pollination and seed-dispersal interactions of wild cherry trees

scientific article

Invasive species modulate the structure and stability of a multilayer mutualistic network

scientific article published in 2023

Large mammal diversity matters for wildlife tourism in Southern African Protected Areas: Insights for management

scholarly article by Ugo Arbieu et al published June 2018 in Ecosystem services

Machine learning algorithms to infer trait‐matching and predict species interactions in ecological networks

scientific article published in 2019

Meta-analysis of the effects of human disturbance on seed dispersal by animals

scientific article

Mismatches between supply and demand in wildlife tourism: Insights for assessing cultural ecosystem services

scholarly article by Ugo Arbieu et al published July 2017 in Ecological Indicators

Morphological trait matching shapes plant-frugivore networks across the Andes

article

Morphological traits determine specialization and resource use in plant–hummingbird networks in the neotropics

article

Morphology predicts species' functional roles and their degree of specialization in plant-frugivore interactions

scientific article published in January 2016

Multispecies interactions across trophic levels at macroscales: retrospective and future directions

scientific article published in 2014

Negative effects of habitat degradation and fragmentation on the declining grassland plant Trifolium montanum

article

Opposed latitudinal patterns of network-derived and dietary specialization in avian plant-frugivore interaction systems

article

Phylogenetic and Functional Diversity of Fleshy-Fruited Plants Are Positively Associated with Seedling Diversity in a Tropical Montane Forest

scientific article published on 14 August 2017

Plant and animal functional diversity drive mutualistic network assembly across an elevational gradient

scientific article published in Nature Communications

Plant-frugivore networks are less specialized and more robust at forest-farmland edges than in the interior of a tropical forest

article

Pollination and seed dispersal are the most threatened processes of plant regeneration

scientific article

Pollinator effectiveness in the mixed-pollination system of a Neotropical Proteaceae, <i>Oreocallis grandiflora</i>

scientific article published on 26 July 2021

Positive relationship between fruit removal by animals and seedling recruitment in a tropical forest

scientific article published in 2017

Potential of Airborne LiDAR Derived Vegetation Structure for the Prediction of Animal Species Richness at Mount Kilimanjaro

scientific article published on 09 February 2022

Predicting ecosystem functions from biodiversity and mutualistic networks: an extension of trait-based concepts to plant-animal interactions

article

Predictors of elevational biodiversity gradients change from single taxa to the multi-taxa community level

scientific article

Projected impacts of climate change on functional diversity of frugivorous birds along a tropical elevational gradient

scientific article published on 27 November 2019

Projecting consequences of global warming for the functional diversity of fleshy‐fruited plants and frugivorous birds along a tropical elevational gradient

scientific article published on 04 June 2019

Responses of nectar-feeding birds to floral resources at multiple spatial scales

article

Reward quality predicts effects of bird-pollinators on the reproduction of African Protea shrubs

scientific article published in 2015

River dynamics shape clonal diversity and genetic structure of an Amazonian understorey herb

scientific article published in 2011

Seasonal fluctuations of resource abundance and avian feeding guilds across forest-farmland boundaries in tropical Africa

article

Secondary dispersal by ants promotes forest regeneration after deforestation

scientific article published in 2014

Seed-deposition and recruitment patterns of Clusia species in a disturbed tropical montane forest in Bolivia

scholarly article by Francisco Saavedra et al published November 2017 in Acta Oecologica

Seed-dispersal networks are more specialized in the Neotropics than in the Afrotropics

scientific article published on 26 November 2018

Seed-dispersal networks respond differently to resource effects in open and forest habitats

scientific article published on 23 November 2017

Seedling recruitment of small-seeded and large-seeded species in forests and pastures in southern Ecuador

scholarly article

Short seed-dispersal distances and low seedling recruitment in farmland populations of bird-dispersed cherry trees

scientific article published in 2012

Similar composition of functional roles in Andean seed-dispersal networks, despite high species and interaction turnover

scientific article published on 29 February 2020

Spatio-temporal variation in bird assemblages is associated with fluctuations in temperature and precipitation along a tropical elevational gradient.

scientific article published on 10 May 2018

Specialization and interaction strength in a tropical plant-frugivore network differ among forest strata

scientific article

Specialization of mutualistic interaction networks decreases toward tropical latitudes

scientific article

Speciation and population divergence in a mutualistic seed dispersing bird

scientific article published on 09 May 2022

Species richness is more important for ecosystem functioning than species turnover along an elevational gradient

scientific article published on 20 September 2021

Sugar landscapes and pollinator-mediated interactions in plant communities

article

Synergistic effects of climate and land use on avian beta-diversity

scientific article published in 2017

TRY plant trait database - enhanced coverage and open access

scientific article published on 31 December 2019

The importance of vegetation density for tourists' wildlife viewing experience and satisfaction in African savannah ecosystems.

scientific article published on 28 September 2017

The indirect effects of habitat disturbance on the bird communities in a tropical African forest

article published in 2015

The influence of biogeographical and evolutionary histories on morphological trait‐matching and resource specialization in mutualistic hummingbird–plant networks

scientific article published on 03 March 2021

The integration of alien plants in mutualistic plant-hummingbird networks across the Americas: the importance of species traits and insularity

article

The macroecology of phylogenetically structured hummingbird-plant networks

article

Topography and edge effects are more important than elevation as drivers of vegetation patterns in a neotropical montane forest

Towards an animal economics spectrum for ecosystem research

scientific article published on 07 April 2022

Trait-Based Assessments of Climate-Change Impacts on Interacting Species

scientific article published on 24 January 2020

Trait‐based Inference of Ecological Network Assembly: A Conceptual Framework and Methodological Toolbox

scientific article published in 2022

Trait‐based inference of ecological network assembly: A conceptual framework and methodological toolbox

scientific article

Variable relationships between trait diversity and avian ecological functions in agroecosystems

scientific article published in 2022

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October 2018 Global Ecology and Biogeography

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