title: Biogeography: are tropical species less specialised?
abstract: Species richness increases from the poles to the tropics, which has led to the view that interactions in tropical species are more specialised. A new study on pollinators and seed dispersers finds that tropical interactions are in fact less specialised.
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental and Geographical Sciences, University of Northampton, Newton Building, Avenue Campus, Northampton, NN2 6JD, UK. jeff.ollerton@northampton.ac.uk
authors.forename: Jeff
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ollerton
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D017753:Ecosystem; D010944:Plants; D054817:Pollination; D058614:Seed Dispersal; D013559:Symbiosis; D014329:Tropical Climate