Pollen transport networks reveal highly diverse and temporally stable plant-pollinator interactions in an Appalachian floral community.

ABSTRACT: Floral visitation alone has been typically used to characterize plant-pollinator interaction networks even though it ignores differences in the quality of floral visits (e.g. transport of pollen) and thus may overestimate the number and functional importance of pollinating interactions. However, how network structural properties differ between floral visitation and pollen transport networks is not well understood. Furthermore, the strength and frequency of plant-pollinator interactions may vary across fine temporal scales (within a single season) further limiting our predictive understanding of the drivers and consequences of plant-pollinator network structure. Thus, evaluating the structure of pollen transport networks and how they change within a flowering season may help increase our pr

SUBMITTER: Barker DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8508780 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature