Indirect effects drive coevolution in mutualistic networks

Paulo R. Guimarães (), Mathias M. Pires, Pedro Jordano, Jordi Bascompte and John N. Thompson
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Paulo R. Guimarães: Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua do Matão 321
Mathias M. Pires: Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
Pedro Jordano: Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC)
Jordi Bascompte: University of Zurich
John N. Thompson: University of California

Nature, 2017, vol. 550, issue 7677, 511-514

Abstract: An approach to ecological interactions that integrates coevolutionary dynamics and network structure, showing that selection in mutualisms is shaped not only by the mutualistic partners but by all sorts of indirect effects from other species in the network.

Date: 2017
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