Species-habitat networks reveal conservation implications that other community analyses do not detect.

ABSTRACT: Grassland restoration is an important conservation intervention supporting declining insect pollinators in threatened calcareous grassland landscapes. While the success of restoration is often quantified using simple measures of diversity or similarity to target communities, these measures do not capture all fundamental aspects of community reconstruction. Here, we develop species-habitat networks that aim to define habitat-level foraging dependencies of pollinators across restored grassland landscapes and compare their value to these more conventional measures of community restoration. We assessed this across Salisbury Plain (UK), which represents the largest area of chalk grassland in northwestern Europe, encompassing six distinct management types aimed at the restoration and maintenance

SUBMITTER: Dong Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11744225 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature