Spatial heterogeneity regulates plant-pollinator networks across multiple landscape scales.

ABSTRACT: Mutualistic plant-pollinator interactions play a key role in biodiversity conservation and ecosystem functioning. In a community, the combination of these interactions can generate emergent properties, e.g., robustness and resilience to disturbances such as fluctuations in populations and extinctions. Given that these systems are hierarchical and complex, environmental changes must have multiple levels of influence. In addition, changes in habitat quality and in the landscape structure are important threats to plants, pollinators and their interactions. However, despite the importance of these phenomena for the understanding of biological systems, as well as for conservation and management strategies, few studies have empirically evaluated these effects at the network level. Therefore, the

SUBMITTER: Moreira EF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4391788 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature