Rafael Barros Pereira Pinheiro

TL;DR: Combining macroecological patterns and biogeographic processes, this study reveals that haemosporidian parasites are capable of circumventing geographic barriers and dispersing across biomes, although constrained by environmental filtering.

TL;DR: Light is shed on the assembly rules of a multilayer network formed by frugivory and nectarivory interactions between bats and plants in the Neotropics and suggests that phylogenetic constraints separate species into different layers and shape the network’s modules.

TL;DR: The Integrative Hypothesis of Parasite Specialization is proposed, a novel theoretical model that explains the contradictory results found in the study and reported to date in the literature.

TL;DR: A model that simulates the evolution of consumer species using resource species following simple rules derived from the integrative hypothesis of specialization (IHS) demonstrates that resource heterogeneity drives network topology and suggests that networks containing similar species differ from heterogeneous networks and that modules may not present the topology of entire networks.

TL;DR: This work sheds light on the assembly rules of a multilayer network formed by frugivory and nectarivory interactions between bats and plants in the Neotropics by harnessing the framework of a novel integrative hypothesis.