Adaptive foraging of pollinators fosters gradual tipping under resource competition and rapid environmental change.

ABSTRACT: Plant and pollinator communities are vital for transnational food chains. Like many natural systems, they are affected by global change: rapidly deteriorating conditions threaten their numbers. Previous theoretical studies identified the potential for community-wide collapse above critical levels of environmental stressors-so-called bifurcation-induced tipping points. Fortunately, even as conditions deteriorate, individuals have some adaptive capacity, potentially increasing the boundary for a safe operating space where changes in ecological processes are reversible. Our study considers this adaptive capacity of pollinators to resource availability and identifies a new threat to disturbed pollinator communities. We model the adaptive foraging of pollinators in changing environments. Pollin

SUBMITTER: Terpstra S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10802948 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature