Pollination and other ecosystem services produced by mobile organisms: a conceptual framework for the effects of land‐use change

C Kremen, NM Williams, MA Aizen… - Ecology …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Many ecosystem services are delivered by organisms that depend on habitats that are
segregated spatially or temporally from the location where services are provided …

Weed-insect pollinator networks as bio-indicators of ecological sustainability in agriculture. A review

O Rollin, G Benelli, S Benvenuti, A Decourtye… - Agronomy for …, 2016 - Springer
The intensification of agricultural practices contributes to the decline of many taxa such as
insects and wild plants. Weeds are serious competitors for crop production and are thus …

[KNIHA][B] Plant evolution in the Mediterranean: insights for conservation

JD Thompson - 2020 - books.google.com
Since the first edition of this book published in 2005, there has been an immense amount of
new and fascinating work on the history, ecology, and evolution of the Mediterranean flora …

Exotic garden plants partly substitute for native plants as resources for pollinators when native plants become seasonally scarce

M Staab, MH Pereira-Peixoto, AM Klein - Oecologia, 2020 - Springer
Urban green spaces such as gardens often consist of native and exotic plant species, which
provide pollen and nectar for flower-visiting insects. Although some exotic plants are readily …

Trait matching and phenological overlap increase the spatio‐temporal stability and functionality of plant–pollinator interactions

G Peralta, DP Vázquez, NP Chacoff… - Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Morphology and phenology influence plant–pollinator network structure, but whether they
generate more stable pairwise interactions with higher pollination success remains …

Plant–pollinator networks: adding the pollinator's perspective

J Bosch, AM Martín González, A Rodrigo… - Ecology …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Pollination network studies are based on pollinator surveys conducted on focal plants. This
plant‐centred approach provides insufficient information on flower visitation habits of rare …

Pollinators show flower colour preferences but flowers with similar colours do not attract similar pollinators

S Reverté, J Retana, JM Gómez, J Bosch - Annals of botany, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Background and aims Colour is one of the main floral traits used by pollinators to locate
flowers. Although pollinators show innate colour preferences, the view that the colour of a …

Species attributes and invasion success by alien plants on Mediterranean islands

F Lloret, F Medail, G Brundu, I Camarda… - Journal of Ecology, 2005 - JSTOR
1 Species attributes have been used to explain invasion patterns assuming the prevalence
of biological mechanisms, although this approach often suffers several methodological and …

Compartmentalization in plant-insect flower visitor webs

LV Dicks, SA Corbet, RF Pywell - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2002 - JSTOR
1. Interactions between entomophilous flowering plants and their insect visitors were
recorded at two mesotrophic grassland communities in Norfolk, and a diagrammatic …

Structure of a plant–flower‐visitor network in the high‐altitude sub‐alpine desert of Tenerife, Canary Islands

YL Dupont, DM Hansen, JM Olesen - Ecography, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
Confined within a volcanic caldera at 2000 m asl, the sub‐alpine desert of Tenerife, Canary
Islands, harbors a distinct biota. At this altitude the climate is harsh and the growing season …