The Hawaii VINE Project just got a new paper published in the Proceeding of the Royal Society B! The paper looks at the mechanisms that control the number of interactions between birds and fleshy-fruited plants in Hawaii, such as the red-vented bulbul eating the fruit of an Australia umbrella tree pictured here. The work was led by Dr. Jeferson Vizentin-Bugoni who took this even further to see how these mechanisms also influence the robustness of the interaction networks. Stay tuned for more information when the paper becomes published!
The article can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.1490
Vizentin-Bugoni, J., J. H. Sperry, C. E. Tarwater, J. T. Foster, D. R. Drake, S. B. Case, J. M. Gleditsch, A. M. Hruska, R. C. Wilcox, and J. P Kelley (in press) Mechanisms underlying interaction frequencies and robustness of a novel seed dispersal network in Hawaii. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
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