Scale gaps in landscape phenology: challenges and opportunities

DS Park, EA Newman, IK Breckheimer - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - cell.com
Phenology, or the timing of life history events, can be heterogeneous across biological
communities and landscapes and can vary across a wide variety of spatiotemporal scales …

The evolution, ecology, and conservation of hummingbirds and their interactions with flowering plants

KG Leimberger, B Dalsgaard, JA Tobias… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The ecological co‐dependency between plants and hummingbirds is a classic example of a
mutualistic interaction: hummingbirds rely on floral nectar to fuel their rapid metabolisms …

Accelerating homogenization of the global plant–frugivore meta-network

EC Fricke, JC Svenning - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Introductions of species by humans are causing the homogenization of species composition
across biogeographic barriers,–. The ecological and evolutionary consequences of …

Assessing ecological interactions in urban areas using citizen science data: Insights from hummingbird–plant meta-networks in a tropical megacity

OH Marín-Gómez, CR Flores… - Urban Forestry & Urban …, 2022 - Elsevier
Urbanization is one of the most intensive threats to biodiversity worldwide. The rapid sprawl
of urban settings often comprises a drastic landscape transformation due to the replacement …

Tropical urban areas support highly diverse plant-pollinator interactions: An assessment from Brazil

VT Nascimento, K Agostini, CS Souza… - Landscape and Urban …, 2020 - Elsevier
Urban areas contribute to conservation of pollinators, but we lack assessments from the
most biodiverse tropical regions in the world. We synthesized studies on urban plant …

[HTML][HTML] Contrasting nation-wide citizen science and expert collected data on hummingbird–plant interactions

C Bosenbecker, PA Anselmo, RZ Andreoli… - Perspectives in Ecology …, 2023 - Elsevier
Citizen science has the potential to increase the efficiency of scientific data collection.
However, such initiatives often focus on unique taxa for each record, not necessarily …

Similar composition of functional roles in Andean seed‐dispersal networks, despite high species and interaction turnover

DM Dehling, G Peralta, IMA Bender, PG Blendinger… - Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The species composition of local communities varies in space, and its similarity generally
decreases with increasing geographic distance between communities, a phenomenon …

Drivers of the structure of plant–hummingbird interaction networks at multiple temporal scales

E Chávez-González, J Vizentin-Bugoni, DP Vázquez… - Oecologia, 2020 - Springer
In semi-arid environments, the marked contrast in temperature and precipitation over the
year strongly shapes ecological communities. The composition of species and their …

Towards a real-time tracking of an expanding alien bee species in Southeast Europe through citizen science and floral host monitoring

JB Dubaić, J Lanner, C Rohrbach… - Environmental …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Citizen science, a practice of public participation in scientific projects, is popular in Western
countries, however, it is still a relatively novel approach in Southeast Europe. In this region …

Mass-flowering native species are key in the structure of an urban plant-hummingbird network

VA Nakamura, CS Souza, AC Araujo - Urban Ecosystems, 2023 - Springer
Despite the importance of parks and vegetation remnants in supporting the fauna in urban
areas, not much is known about the structure of interaction networks of plants and pollinators …