Plant–animal mutualistic networks sustain terrestrial biodiversity and human food security.
Global environmental changes threaten these networks, underscoring the urgency for …

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 1546–1559 Abstract Species coexistence within ecosystems and
the stability of patterns of temporal changes in population sizes are central topics in …

Maintaining the relationships between plants and pollinators is vital to ecosystem stability.
Insecticides may disturb these interactions with poorly understood consequences for …

Much research debates whether properties of ecological networks such as nestedness and
connectance stabilise biological communities while ignoring key behavioural aspects of …

Pollination systems are recognized as critical for the maintenance of biodiversity in terrestrial
ecosystems. Therefore, the understanding of mechanisms that promote the integrity of those …

Earlier studies used static models to evaluate the responses of mutualistic networks to
external perturbations. Two classes of dynamics can be distinguished in ecological …

Biotic interactions play an important role on the organization and persistence of biodiversity.
Unnatural modifications of landscape structure such as habitat loss and fragmentation can …

Wild insects provide pollination services in agroecosystems. Avocado is an economically
important crop grown in the Chilean Mediterranean climate region and exported worldwide …

Native and introduced species can coexist in rich ecosystems where competition for
resources is less intense; however, native species can be excluded from suitable habitats …

In the last decades, pollinators have drastically declined as a consequence of
anthropogenic activities that have local and global impacts. The food industry has been …