Brimacombe C, Bodner K, Fortin MJ. How network size strongly determines trophic specialisation: A technical comment on Luna et al. (2022).
Ecol Lett 2022;
25:1914-1916. [PMID:
35610664 DOI:
10.1111/ele.14029]
[Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2022] [Revised: 04/23/2022] [Accepted: 05/03/2022] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
Abstract
Luna et al. (2022) concluded that the environment contributes to explaining specialisation in open plant-pollinator networks. When reproducing their study, we instead found that network size alone largely explained the variation in their specialisation metrics. Thus, we question whether empirical network specialisation is driven by the environment.
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