Patterns and drivers of pollen co‐transport network structure vary across pollinator functional groups

• Published in: The Journal of ecology Vol. 112; no. 10; pp. 2319 - 2332
• Main Authors: Carneiro, Liedson Tavares, Williams, Jessica Nicole, Barker, Daniel A., Anderson, Joseph W., Martel, Carlos, Arceo‐Gomez, Gerardo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.10.2024
• Subjects: Animal reproduction; Assembly; Bees; Body size; Breeding success; Community composition; Competition; Competitors; Dispersal; Evolution; Flowering; Functional groups; functional traits; Gender; heterospecific pollen; Information processing; Insects; landscapes; Loads (forces); Network analysis; phylogenetic diversity; Phylogenetics; Phylogeny; Plant communities; Plants (botany); plant–pollinator interactions; Pollen; pollen competition; pollen flow; pollen loads; pollinator niche breadth; Pollinators; Reproduction; reproductive success; serpentine seeps; species; Species composition; Species diversity; travel

The patterns and drivers of pollen transport on insect bodies can have important consequences for plant reproductive success and floral evolution; however, they remain little studied. Recently, pollinator bodies have been further described as pollen competitive arenas, where pollen grains can compet...