Plant defense: a pre‐adaptation for pollinator shifts

Plant defense: a pre-adaptation for pollinator shifts.

Pollinator Shifts and the Origin and Loss of Plant Species

Pollinators have long been implicated in plant speciation. Peter Raven’s earlier work was instrumental in integrating foraging energetics of animals into our understanding of how shifts in major pollinators influence the evolutionary diversification of floral traits. More recently, efforts by Raven and others in the area of conservation have inspired pollination biologists to consider the impli...

Shifts in pollinator composition and behavior cause slow interaction accumulation with area in plant-pollinator networks.

Although ecologists have a solid understanding of the positive species-area relationship, little is known about how and why variation in habitat area influences the richness, structure, and function of species interaction networks. To address this, we investigated plant-pollinator interaction networks of the herbaceous rocky outcrop communities in Ozark glades (Missouri, USA) of different areas...

Plant-pollinator population dynamics.

We formulate and analyze a multi-generation population dynamics model for pollinators' mutualism with plants. The centerpiece of our model is an analytical expression for population-level plant-pollinator interactions extrapolated from a model of individual-level flowers and bees interactions. We also show that this analytical expression can be productively approximated by the Beddington-DeAnge...

Implicit Feedback Recommendation for Plant-pollinator Networks

Examining and evaluating complex ecological communites is a popular study area of significant ecological value. Mutualistic plant-pollinator networks are an especially important community because of the crucial role of pollinator in food production, yet much is still unkown about the underlying community structures of these networks, as well as their stability under enviornmental pertubation. W...