Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, University of Northampton, Newton Building, Avenue Campus, Northampton, NN2 6JD, UK.
Curr Biol. 2012 Nov 6;22(21):R914-5. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.023.
Species richness increases from the poles to the tropics, which has led to the view that interactions in tropical species are more specialised. A new study on pollinators and seed dispersers finds that tropical interactions are in fact less specialised.
物种丰富度从两极向热带增加,这导致了热带物种的相互作用更加专业化的观点。一项关于传粉者和种子散布者的新研究发现,热带相互作用实际上专业化程度较低。