Concepts of applied ecology: neotropical networks and maintenance of biodiversity
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https://doi.org/10.6008/CBPC2674-645X.2020.002.0001Keywords:
Biodiversity, Ecology, Neotropical networksAbstract
The structure of Neotropical forests, determined by animal/plant interactions, is highly organized. The system consists of several parallel networks, structurally similar, but taxonomically different, based on specific groups of plants. Mutualism plays a crucial role in maintaining the diversity of a system. The mobile connections are represented by animals required by many plants for their reproduction and dispersion. Key mutualists are the plants that support the link organisms and that indirectly maintain the food networks that depend on mobile links, for all or part of the abundance of species. Finally, as ants control the rate of herbivores on different plants, the existence of a mosaic of different dominant ants, where certain species create a subtle and important form of sites, is necessary.
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