Article
The influence of floral traits on specialization and modularity of plant-pollinator networks in a biodiversity hotspot in the Peruvian Andes.
Annals of botany - 1 Sept 2016
Watts Stella, Dormann Carsten F, Martín González Ana M, Ollerton Jeff
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Modularity is a ubiquitous and important structural property of ecological networks which describes the relative strengths of sets of interacting species and gives insights into the dynamics of ecological communities. However, this has rarely been studied in species-rich, tropical plant-pollinator networks. Working in a biodiversity hotspot in the Peruvian Andes we assessed the structure of...
Topics
- Animals
- Bees
- Biodiversity
- Biota
- Birds
- Flowers
- Peru
- Phenotype
- Plants
- Pollination
