Simulated high-intensity phorophyte removal mitigates the robustness of epiphyte community and destroys commensal network structure

• Published in: Forest ecology and management Vol. 526; p. 120586
• Main Authors: Hu, Hai-Xia, Mo, Yu-Xuan, Shen, Ting, Wu, Yi, Shi, Xian-Meng, Ai, Yan-Yu, Lu, Hua-Zheng, Zakari, Sissou, Li, Su, Song, Liang
• Format: Journal Article Web Resource
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier B.V 15.12.2022
• Subjects: administrative management; biodiversity conservation; Biologie végétale (sciences végétales, sylviculture, mycologie...); China; Commensal interaction; Disturbance; Ecological network; Ecological networks; Environmental sciences & ecology; epiphytes; extinction; forest ecology; Forestry; High intensity; Individual-based; Interspecies interactions; Life sciences; Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law; Nature and Landscape Conservation; Nestedness; Network structures; Phytobiology (plant sciences, forestry, mycology...); Sciences de l’environnement & écologie; Sciences du vivant; Second extinction; Stability; Tropical rain forest; tropical rain forests; Tropical rainforest; China; Ecological network; Second extinction; Stability; Commensal interaction; Tropical rainforest; Disturbance

•The epiphyte-phorophyte networks have low connectivity and moderate modularity.•The keystone phorophytes removed firstly reduces robustness of epiphyte community.•When 80% of phorophytes are removed, the network topology changes dramatically.•The dynamic of ecological networks is predicted under se...