Скачать или смотреть 2011 EEF Jordi Bascompte Plenary "Plant-Animal Mutualistic networks"

"Plant-Animal Mutualistic networks: the Architecture of Biodiversity": The mutualistic interactions between plants and the animals that pollinate them or disperse their seeds can form complex networks involving hundreds of species. These coevolutionary networks are highly heterogeneous, nested,
and built upon weak and asymmetric links among species. Such general architectural patterns increase network robustness to random extinctions and maximize the number of coexisting species. Therefore, mutualistic networks can be viewed as the architecture of biodiversity. However, because pylogenetically similar species tend to play similar roles in the network, extinction events trigger non-random coextinction cascades. This implies that taxonomic diversity is lost faster than expected if there was no relationship between phylogeny and network structure. I will conclude by exploring the trade-offs between a species’ relative contribution to the above patterns of network architecture, and its own survival probability.