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dc.contributor.authorBallantyne, Gavin
dc.contributor.authorBaldock, Katherine C. R.
dc.contributor.authorRendell, Luke
dc.contributor.authorWillmer, P. G.
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-22T11:30:10Z
dc.date.available2017-08-22T11:30:10Z
dc.date.issued2017-08-21
dc.identifier250539546
dc.identifier50d28beb-339e-4290-93c5-47e87734108b
dc.identifier85027851409
dc.identifier000408103600001
dc.identifier.citationBallantyne , G , Baldock , K C R , Rendell , L & Willmer , P G 2017 , ' Pollinator importance networks illustrate the crucial value of bees in a highly speciose plant community ' , Scientific Reports , vol. 7 , 8389 . https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08798-xen
dc.identifier.issn2045-2322
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0002-1121-9142/work/60428009
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/11526
dc.descriptionThis research was funded by the Natural Environmental Research Council (grant no. NE/K004522/1).en
dc.description.abstractAccurate predictions of pollination service delivery require a comprehensive understanding of the interactions between plants and flower visitors. To improve measurements of pollinator performance underlying such predictions, we surveyed visitation frequency, pollinator effectiveness (pollen deposition ability) and pollinator importance (the product of visitation frequency and effectiveness) of flower visitors in a diverse Mediterranean flower meadow. With these data we constructed the largest pollinator importance network to date and compared it with the corresponding visitation network to estimate the specialisation of the community with greater precision. Visitation frequencies at the community level were positively correlated with the amount of pollen deposited during individual visits, though rarely correlated at lower taxonomic resolution. Bees had the highest levels of pollinator effectiveness, with Apis, Andrena, Lasioglossum and Osmiini bees being the most effective visitors to a number of plant species. Bomblyiid flies were the most effective non-bee flower visitors. Predictions of community specialisation (H2′) were higher in the pollinator importance network than the visitation network, mirroring previous studies. Our results increase confidence in existing measures of pollinator redundancy at the community level using visitation data, while also providing detailed information on interaction quality at the plant species level.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofScientific Reportsen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.titlePollinator importance networks illustrate the crucial value of bees in a highly speciose plant communityen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorNERCen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Social Learning & Cognitive Evolutionen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Sea Mammal Research Uniten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Marine Alliance for Science & Technology Scotlanden
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Bioacoustics groupen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Centre for Biological Diversityen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Instituteen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciencesen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. St Andrews Sustainability Instituteen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-08798-x
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-08798-x#supplementary-informationen
dc.identifier.urlhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-78538-1en
dc.identifier.grantnumberNE/K004522/1en


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