| RRC ID |
85621
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| Author |
Marjakangas EL, Dalsgaard B, Ordonez A.
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| Title |
Fundamental Interaction Niches: Towards a Functional Understanding of Ecological Networks' Resilience.
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| Journal |
Ecol Lett
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| Abstract |
Global change will create new species interactions and alter or eliminate existing ones, a process known as interaction rewiring. This rewiring can significantly affect how ecosystems function. To better predict the future structure of ecological networks, assessing their ability to adapt to changes is crucial. Here, we introduce two concepts: 'rewiring capacity' of a single species (the multidimensional trait space of all its potential interaction partners within a region) and 'rewiring potential' of a local community (the total trait space covered by interaction partners of the species at the target trophic level locally). To quantify the rewiring capacity and potential, we apply existing methods for determining species' functional interaction niches in a novel way to assess species' and communities' ability to form new interactions and the functional resilience of interaction networks to global change. To illustrate the applicability of these concepts, we quantified the rewiring capacity and potential of interactions between 1002 flowering plant species and 318 hummingbird species across the Americas. The rewiring capacity and potential metrics offer a new way to understand and quantify network resilience, allowing us to map how ecological networks respond to global change.
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| Volume |
28(6)
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| Pages |
e70146
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| Published |
2025-5-30
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| DOI |
10.1111/ele.70146
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| Description |
BiodiC-J data were referenced.
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| PMID |
40443189
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| PMC |
PMC12123259
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| MeSH |
Animals
Birds* / physiology
Ecosystem*
Magnoliopsida* / physiology
Models, Biological*
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| IF |
8.665
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| Resource |
| GBIF |
Vascular plant specimens of the herbarium of the Tohoku University (TUS)
Plant Specimen Database of Tama Forest Science Garden, Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, Japan
Vascular plant specimens of Akita Prefectural Museum
Herbarium, University Archives and Collections, Fukushima University, Japan (FKSE)
Vascular Plant Collection of Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba
Herbarium Specimens of Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo Pref., Japan
Spermatophyta collection of Museum of Natural and Environmental History, Shizuoka
Ibaraki Nature Museum, Vascular Plants collection
Vascular plant specimens of National Museum of Nature and Science (TNS)
Plant Specimens of Kurashiki Museum of Natural History
Herbarium Specimens of Tokushima Prefectural Museum, Japan
Plant specimens in the Museum of Nature and Human Activities, Hyogo Prefecture, Japan
Plant specimens deposited in Osaka Museum of Natural History, Japan
Vascular Plant Specimens of Kochi Prefectural Makino Botanical Garden
Vascular Plant Specimen database of Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History
Gunma Museum of Natural History, Vascular Plant Specimen
Vascular plants collection of Hiratsuka City Museum
Vascular Plant Specimens of the RYU Herbarium (Faculty of Science, University of the Ryukyus)
Herbarium Specimens of Bonin and Ryukyu Islands
The 2nd and 3rd National Survey on the Natural Environment: Vegetation Survey (common species)
Vascular plant specimens of Nagano Environmental Conservation Research Institute, Nagano Prefecture
Tracheophyta collection of Biodiversity Center of Japan, Ministry of the Environment
Plant specimens of Toyota City Nature Sanctuary (from non-museum circle)
Vascular plant specimens of Toyama Science Museum |
