1 Global Meta-Network Figure (IMAGE)

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1 Global Meta-Network Figure

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Introduced species blur natural geographic signatures in the global network of mutualistic interactions between plants and seed dispersers. Each point represents a plant or animal species and links show interactions observed at any location. Geographic patterns emerge when visualizing only interactions among native species (a) but are blurred when interactions involving introduced species are included (b).

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Evan Fricke and Jens-Christian Svenning, and Nature.

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