Agricultural intensification indirectly reshapes bee-plant interaction networks through shifts in bee functional traits.

ABSTRACT: High-intensity farming can lead to non-random local extinctions and functional filtering of pollinating insect assemblages, disproportionately harming species with certain traits. This process can ultimately reshape pollinator-plant interaction networks in predictable, consistent manners, although this pathway remains largely unexplored. Here, we investigate how agricultural intensification affects the structure of bee-plant interaction networks both directly and indirectly by influencing the functional composition and diversity (in terms of foraging and nesting traits) of the bee assemblages. We considered 24 paired olive farms with contrasting management over a gradient of landscape complexity. We characterized the network structure and functional composition of bee assemblages visiting

SUBMITTER: Cano D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12453942 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature