The role of intra-guild indirect interactions in assembling plant-pollinator networks.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the assembly of plant-pollinator communities has become critical to their conservation given the rise of species invasions, extirpations, and species' range shifts. Over the course of assembly, colonizer establishment produces core interaction patterns, called motifs, which shape the trajectory of assembling network structure. Dynamic assembly models can advance our understanding of this process by linking the transient dynamics of colonizer establishment to long-term network development. In this study, we investigate the role of intra-guild indirect interactions and adaptive foraging in shaping the structure of assembling plant-pollinator networks by developing: 1) an assembly model that includes population dynamics and adaptive foraging, and 2) a motif analysis tracking the

SUBMITTER: Dritz S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10507117 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature