Contrasting effects of land-use changes on herbivory and pollination networks.

ABSTRACT: Land-use changes, one of the greatest threats to global biodiversity, can cause underappreciated effects on ecosystems by altering the structures of interspecific interaction networks. These effects have typically been explored by evaluating interaction networks composed of a single type of interaction. Therefore, it remains unclear whether the different types of interaction networks sharing the same species respond to the same land-use changes in a similar manner.To compare the responses of herbivory and pollination networks to land-use changes, we investigated both types of interaction networks in seminatural grasslands categorized into three types of agricultural land-use (abandoned, extensively managed, and intensively managed) in a Japanese agricultural landscape. We quantified the st

SUBMITTER: Shinohara N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6912900 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature