Indirect effects drive coevolution in mutualistic networks

An approach to ecological interactions that integrates coevolutionary dynamics and network structure, showing that selection in mutualisms is shaped not only by the mutualistic partners but by all sorts of indirect effects from other species in the network. In the final pages of The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin presented the image of a tangled bank to evoke the constant interplay of plants and animals in an ecosystem. As each individual...