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. 2012 Nov 6;22(21):R914-5.
doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.023.

Biogeography: are tropical species less specialised?

Jeff Ollerton  1
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Biogeography: are tropical species less specialised?

Jeff Ollerton. Curr Biol. .
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Abstract

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.

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