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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
卷 110, 期 41, 页码 16503-16507出版社
NATL ACAD SCIENCES
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1300131110
关键词
biological invasions; community disassembly; seed dispersal; pollination; herbivory
资金
- US National Science Foundation NSF [DEB-1110431]
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Tennessee
- Division Of Environmental Biology
- Direct For Biological Sciences [1136703] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
Interaction webs summarize the diverse interactions among species in communities. The addition or loss of particular species and the alteration of key interactions can lead to the disassembly of the entire interaction web, although the nontrophic effects of species loss on interaction webs are poorly understood. We took advantage of ongoing invasions by a suite of exotic species to examine their impact in terms of the disassembly of an interaction web in Patagonia, Argentina. We found that the reduction of one species (a host of a keystone mistletoe species) resulted in diverse indirect effects that led to the disassembly of an interaction web through the loss of the mistletoe, two key seed-dispersers (a marsupial and a bird), and a pollinator (hummingbird). Our results demonstrate that the gains and losses of species are both consequences and drivers of global change that can lead to underappreciated cascading coextinctions through the disruption of mutualisms.
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