High Resource Overlap and a Consistently Generalised Pattern of Interactions in a Bat-Flower Network in a Seasonally Dry Landscape.

ABSTRACT: Pollination is an ecosystem process that is crucial to maintain biodiversity and ecosystem function. Bats are important pollinators in the tropics and are an integral part of complex plant-pollinator interaction networks. However, network analysis-based approaches are still scarce at the plant species and bat community levels. We used metabarcoding to identify plant taxa present in pollen from fur and faecal samples collected across 1 year from three nectar-feeding bat roosts in central Mexico. We calculated the frequency of occurrence of plant taxa and assembled a zoocentric network of bat-plant interactions. We constructed a year-long network, encompassing the entire period of sampling, two seasonal networks comprising the wet and dry seasons, and six individual networks from sampling at

SUBMITTER: Tremlett CJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11461904 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature