Specialization on traits as basis for the niche‐breadth of flower visitors and as structuring mechanism of ecological networks

By Robert R. Junker, N. Blüthgen, T. Brehm, Julia Binkenstein, Justina Paulus, Hans-Christian Schaefer, Martina Stang. 2013

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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Citations in the corpus

The macroecology of phylogenetically structured hummingbird–plant networks (2015, background): “At the same time, higher species richness may increase interspecific competition, which may explain why high species richness leads to higher levels of complementary specialization and modularity (Rezende et al., 2009; Dalsgaard et al., 2011; Krasnov et al., 2012; Junker et al., 2013).”
Trait matching of flower visitors and crops predicts fruit set better than trait diversity (2015, background): “Nectar accessibility, high vs. low, reflected the accessibility of the nectar resources (nectaries) to the flower visitors (Fontaine et al. 2006; Stang, Klinkhamer & van der Meijden 2006; Junker et al. 2013).”
Morphological and Spatio‐Temporal Mismatches Shape a Neotropical Savanna Plant‐Hummingbird Network (2014, background): “However, the mechanisms determining the occurrence and strength of species interactions in local communities remain debated (V azquez et al. 2009b, Olesen et al. 2011, Junker et al. 2013, Vizentin-Bugoni et al. 2014).”
Working Towards a Holistic View on Flower Traits— How Floral Scents Mediate Plant-Animal Interactions in Concert with Other Floral Characters (2015, methodology): “Nonetheless, distance based indices such as Rao’s quadratic entropy, Rao’s Q(226) of species or communities are widely used and are well suited to characterise multimodal phenotypes of flowers.(21) Note that the examples mentioned above are far from complete; additional methods have been used to sta”
Identifying Causes of Patterns in Ecological Networks: Opportunities and Limitations (2017, methodology): “For example, Junker et al. (2013) calculated pairwise Euclidean distances among flower traits, weighted by interaction frequencies among flowers and pollinators, and compared the distances in floral traits visited by a single pollinator species to a null distribution of that community.”