Temporal variation in plant-pollinator networks from seasonal tropical environments: Higher specialization when resources are scarce

• Published in: The Journal of ecology Vol. 106; no. 6; pp. 2409 - 2420
• Main Authors: Souza, Camila S., Maruyama, Pietro K., Aoki, Camila, Sigrist, Maria R., Raizer, Josué, Gross, Caroline L., de Araujo, Andréa C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford John Wiley & Sons Ltd 01.11.2018; Blackwell Publishing Ltd
• Subjects: Abundance; Bees; Brazil; Cerrado; Complex systems; Data; Data collection; Diptera; Dry season; Dynamics; Ecosystems; Flowering; functional diversity; Interactions; Interspecific; interspecific competition; Modularity; nestedness; network sampling; Networks; Niche overlap; Niches; Pantanal; Partitioning; phenology; Plant population and community dynamics; Plant species; Pollinators; Rainy season; Resource availability; seasonality; Seasons; Specialization; Species; temporal variation; Temporal variations; Tropical climate; Tropical environment; Tropical environments; wasps; Wet season; Cerrado Biome; Pantanal; Brazil

1. The temporal dynamics of plant phenology and pollinator abundance across seasons should influence the structure of plant-pollinator interaction networks. Nevertheless, such dynamics are seldom considered, especially for diverse tropical networks. 2. Here, we evaluated the temporal variation of fo...