Using individual‐based trait frequency distributions to forecast plant‐pollinator network responses to environmental change

A Cantwell‐Jones, JM Tylianakis, K Larson… - Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Determining how and why organisms interact is fundamental to understanding ecosystem
responses to future environmental change. To assess the impact on plant‐pollinator …

Predicting plant–pollinator interactions: concepts, methods, and challenges

G Peralta, PJ CaraDonna, D Rakosy, J Fründ… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2024 - cell.com
Plant–pollinator interactions are ecologically and economically important, and, as a result,
their prediction is a crucial theoretical and applied goal for ecologists. Although various …

Community-wide patterns in pollen and ovule production, their ratio (P/O), and other floral traits along an elevation gradient in southwestern China

S Nepal, J Trunschke, ZX Ren, KS Burgess, H Wang - BMC Plant Biology, 2023 - Springer
Background As the male and female gametophytes of flowering plants, pollen and ovules
largely determine the upper and lower boundaries of plant reproductive success. It is …

A Probabilistic View of Forbidden Links: Their Prevalence and Their Consequences for the Robustness of Plant–Hummingbird Communities

F Duchenne, E Barreto, EA Guevara, H Beck… - Ecology …, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
The presence in ecological communities of unfeasible species interactions, termed
forbidden links, due to physiological or morphological exploitation barriers has been long …

Are floral traits and their phenotypic variability related to plants with generalized or specialized pollination systems? A community perspective

L Galetto, MS Morales, MP Mazzei, C Torres - Flora, 2023 - Elsevier
Flower traits under selection by specialized pollinators may experience a decrease in their
phenotypic variation. Another viewpoint suggests that flower traits of plants under selection …

Floral resource partitioning of coexisting bumble bees: Distinguishing species‐, colony‐, and individual‐level effects

ZM Ye, YD He, PJ Bergamo, MC Orr, W Huang… - Ecology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Resource partitioning is considered a key factor in alleviating competitive interactions,
enabling coexistence among consumer species. However, most studies have focused on …

The impact of pollinator functional traits on pollination effectiveness is shaped by floral morphs in distylous plant species

R Liu, D Chen, S Xu, Y Zou - Botanical Journal of the Linnean …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Insect pollinators provide essential ecosystem services, and pollination effectiveness is a
key factor in evaluating the relative importance of different insect species. While single-visit …

Bumble bee diet breadth increases with local abundance and phenophase duration, not intraspecific variation in body size

WR Glenny, JB Runyon, LA Burkle - Oecologia, 2024 - Springer
Patterns of abundance across space and time, and intraspecific variation in body size, are
two species attributes known to influence diet breadth and the structure of interaction …

Relative stable interannual variation in plant–plant pollen transfer rather than the plant–pollinator network of a subalpine meadow

Q Fang, S Guo, T Zhang, X Tang - Journal of Plant Ecology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Previous studies have shown that plant–pollinator mutualistic interactions experience highly
interannual variation. Given that pollinators often move across multiple plant species, the …

The adaptive function of touch-sensitive stigmas

S Krishna, EM Jos, H Somanathan - Plant Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Touch-sensitive movement in stigmas of angiosperm flowers is a phenomenon observable
in a timescale of seconds or minutes. Despite its early documentation in a small fraction of …