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Climate, not latitude, drives specialized plant-pollinator partnerships
Original: Global pollination analysis reveals climate explains specialized partnerships better than latitude
A global analysis of pollination relationships has found that climate explains why some plants and pollinators form specialized partnerships better than latitude does. The findings challenge the long-standing assumption that specialization simply increases toward the tropics, suggesting temperature and rainfall patterns shape ecological interactions more directly than geographic position.
Why now: It challenges an established ecological assumption about how biodiversity partnerships are distributed worldwide.
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Evidence
- Global pollination analysis reveals climate explains specialized partnerships better than latitude · Phys.org
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