Temperature influences pollinators' choice of floral partners independently of community composition.

ABSTRACT: Climate change can impact species interactions by changing the spatial and/or temporal overlap of interaction partners, but interspecific interactions can also vary when partners remain co-located in space and time. Understanding the effects of climate-driven environmental variation, such as rising temperatures, is particularly important for interactions that underlie key ecosystem functions like pollination. However, very little is known about how temperature variation may impact plant-pollinator interaction patterns in the absence of shifts in species presence or abundance, in part because environmental variation across multiple days or sites is often confounded with changing community composition. In this study, we examined the effects of temperature variation on pollinators' choice of

SUBMITTER: Arrowsmith KC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12673243 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature