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dc.contributor.authorBallantyne, Gavin Andrew
dc.contributor.authorBaldock, Katherine C.R.
dc.contributor.authorWillmer, Patricia Gillian
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-07T14:10:01Z
dc.date.available2015-09-07T14:10:01Z
dc.date.issued2015-09-02
dc.identifier211239293
dc.identifierfe00778a-e47d-4442-b60c-9e942b5a0463
dc.identifier84940840371
dc.identifier000363361800002
dc.identifier.citationBallantyne , G A , Baldock , K C R & Willmer , P G 2015 , ' Constructing more informative plant-pollinator networks : visitation and pollen deposition networks in a heathland plant community ' , Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , vol. 282 , 20151130 . https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.1130en
dc.identifier.issn0962-8452
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/7412
dc.description.abstractInteraction networks are widely used as tools to understand plant–pollinator communities, and to examine potential threats to plant diversity and food security if the ecosystem service provided by pollinating animals declines. However, most networks to date are based on recording visits to flowers, rather than recording clearly defined effective pollination events. Here we provide the first networks that explicitly incorporate measures of pollinator effectiveness (PE) from pollen deposition on stigmas per visit, and pollinator importance (PI) as the product of PE and visit frequency. These more informative networks, here produced for a low diversity heathland habitat, reveal that plant–pollinator interactions are more specialized than shown in most previous studies. At the studied site, the specialization index H'2 was lower for the visitation network than the PE network, which was in turn lower than H'2 for the PI network. Our study shows that collecting PE data is feasible for community-level studies in low diversity communities and that including information about PE can change the structure of interaction networks. This could have important consequences for our understanding of threats to pollination systems.
dc.format.extent9
dc.format.extent810818
dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofProceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciencesen
dc.subjectPollinationen
dc.subjectNetworken
dc.subjectSpecies interactionen
dc.subjectPollinator effectivenessen
dc.subjectPollinator importanceen
dc.subjectSpecializationen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subjectSDG 2 - Zero Hungeren
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.titleConstructing more informative plant-pollinator networks : visitation and pollen deposition networks in a heathland plant communityen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.contributor.sponsorNERCen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
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.doi10.1098/rspb.2015.1130
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.identifier.grantnumberNE/K004522/1en


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