Differential pollinator response underlies plant reproductive resilience after fires.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

Assessing the resilience of plant-animal interactions is critical to understanding how plant communities respond to habitat disturbances. Most ecosystems experience some level of natural disturbance (e.g. wildfires) to which many organisms are adapted. Wildfires have structured biotic communities for millennia; however, the effects of fire on interactions such as pollination have only recently received attention. A few studies have shown that generalist plants can buffer the impact of fires by pollinator replacement, suggesting that the resilience to disturbance could depend on the level of specialization of the interactions. Here, we hypothesize that (1) fires could impose negative effects on plants with specialized pollination systems, and (2) in large wildfir

SUBMITTER: Garcia Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6266102 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature