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Volume 6 Issue 6, June 2022

Changing interactions

Hummingbird–plant mutualism is an ideal system to study climate-change pressures on ecological communities, given the availability of interaction and occurrence data. Even though species in Andean communities, such as this spangled coquette (Lophornis stictolophus), tend to have small geographic distributions, the communities appear resilient to future climate changes, unlike communities in lowland South America and in North America.

See Sonne et al.

Image: Jesper Sonne. Cover Design: Allen Beattie.

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