Addition of nocturnal pollinators modifies the structure of pollination networks.

ABSTRACT: Although the ecological network approach has substantially contributed to the study of plant-pollinator interactions, current understanding of their functional structure is biased towards diurnal pollinators. Nocturnal pollinators have been systematically ignored despite the publication of several studies that have tried to alleviate this diurnal bias. Here, we explored whether adding this neglected group of pollinators had a relevant effect on the overall architecture of three high mountain plant-pollinator networks. Including nocturnal moth pollinators modified network properties by decreasing total connectivity, connectance, nestedness and robustness to plant extinction; and increasing web asymmetry and modularity. Nocturnal moths were not preferentially connected to the most linked pla

SUBMITTER: Garcia Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10786900 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature