Plant species with the trait of continuous flowering do not hold core roles in a Neotropical lowland plant‐pollinating insect network

Plant–animal interaction science repeatedly finds that plant species differ by orders of magnitude in the number interactions they support. The identification play key structural roles plant–animal networks is a global conservation priority; however, hyperdiverse systems such as tropical forests, empirical datasets are scarce. Plant with longer reproductive seasons posited to support more compared shorter but this hypothesis has not been evaluated for longest season possible at individual level, continuous phenology. Resource predictability also associated promoting specialization, and therefore, reproduction may instead favor specialist interactions. Here, we use quantitative pollinating insect–plant constructed from countryside habitat Tropical Wet forest Life Zone modularity analysis test whether share trait flowering hold core mutualistic networks. With few exceptions, most sampled within our network were assigned role peripheral. All one had significantly high scores each was different module. Our work reveals differed some their topological role, evidence found phenology specialized subsets findings suggest Neotropical insect communities require planting module rather than identifying conserving hubs.