Reviving collapsed plant-pollinator networks from a single species.

ABSTRACT: Mutualistic ecological networks can suddenly transition to undesirable states due to small changes in environmental conditions. Recovering from such a collapse can be difficult as restoring the original environmental conditions may be infeasible. Additionally, such networks can also exhibit a phenomenon known as hysteresis, whereby the system could exhibit multiple states under the same environmental conditions, implying that ecological networks may not recover. Here, we attempted to revive collapsed mutualistic networks to a high-functioning state from a single species, using concepts from signal propagation theory and an eco-evolutionary model based on network structures of 115 empirical plant-pollinator networks. We found that restoring the environmental conditions rarely aided in recov

SUBMITTER: Baruah G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11482677 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature