Native birds connect ecosystems

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Posted 2 Sep 2025

By James McCarthy

Type: News

Status: Confirmed

Notes: The study shows that species traits and landscape structure influence how interactions between plants and birds affect multiple habitats in New Zealand. The authors found that native birds with traits like generalism and large body size play a key role in connecting different habitats, especially in forests. Plot data from NVS were used to produce the plant distribution maps used in the study.

García-Callejas D, Lavorel S, Ovaskainen O, Peltzer DA, Tylianakis JM 2025. Species traits and landscape structure can drive scale-dependent propagation of effects in ecosystems. Nature Communications 16: 7998.

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