Addition of nocturnal pollinators modifies the structure of pollination networks
(2024) In Scientific Reports 14.- Abstract
Although the ecological network approach has substantially contributed to the study of plant-pollinator interactions, current understanding of their functional structure is biased towards diurnal pollinators. Nocturnal pollinators have been systematically ignored despite the publication of several studies that have tried to alleviate this diurnal bias. Here, we explored whether adding this neglected group of pollinators had a relevant effect on the overall architecture of three high mountain plant-pollinator networks. Including nocturnal moth pollinators modified network properties by decreasing total connectivity, connectance, nestedness and robustness to plant extinction; and increasing web asymmetry and modularity. Nocturnal moths... (More)
Although the ecological network approach has substantially contributed to the study of plant-pollinator interactions, current understanding of their functional structure is biased towards diurnal pollinators. Nocturnal pollinators have been systematically ignored despite the publication of several studies that have tried to alleviate this diurnal bias. Here, we explored whether adding this neglected group of pollinators had a relevant effect on the overall architecture of three high mountain plant-pollinator networks. Including nocturnal moth pollinators modified network properties by decreasing total connectivity, connectance, nestedness and robustness to plant extinction; and increasing web asymmetry and modularity. Nocturnal moths were not preferentially connected to the most linked plants of the networks, and they were grouped into a specific “night” module in only one of the three networks. Our results indicate that ignoring the nocturnal component of plant-pollinator networks may cause changes in network properties different from those expected from random undersampling of diurnal pollinators. Consequently, the neglect of nocturnal interactions may provide a distorted view of the structure of plant-pollinator networks with relevant implications for conservation assessments.
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- García, Yedra LU ; Giménez-Benavides, Luis ; Iriondo, José M. ; Lara-Romero, Carlos ; Méndez, Marcos ; Morente-López, Javier and Santamaría, Silvia
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- 2024
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- Scientific Reports
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- 14
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- 1226
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- Nature Publishing Group
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- pmid:38216624
- scopus:85182245403
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- 2045-2322
- DOI
- 10.1038/s41598-023-49944-y
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- English
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- yes
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author = {{García, Yedra and Giménez-Benavides, Luis and Iriondo, José M. and Lara-Romero, Carlos and Méndez, Marcos and Morente-López, Javier and Santamaría, Silvia}},
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series = {{Scientific Reports}},
title = {{Addition of nocturnal pollinators modifies the structure of pollination networks}},
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doi = {{10.1038/s41598-023-49944-y}},
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