Size constraints and flower abundance determine the number of interactions in a plant /flower visitor web

By Martina Stang, P. Klinkhamer, E. Meijden. 2006

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Plant Science

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Trait matching of flower visitors and crops predicts fruit set better than trait diversity (2015, background): “because of different non-exclusive mechanisms (Tscharntke et al. 2005), including pollination niche complementarity (Hoehn et al.”
Indices, Graphs and Null Models: Analyzing Bipartite Ecological Networks (2009, background): “Constraining the number of links is analogous to some characteristic ecological and/or evolutionary processes, variously described as “trait mismatch”, “morphological barriers” or “forbidden links” (Jordano et al. 2006; Stang et al. 2006; Santamaría and Rodríguez-Gironés 2007; Stang et al. 2007), an”
Centrality measures and the importance of generalist species in pollination networks (2010, background): “Recently, it was shown that species’ morphology is an important factor structuring pollination networks (e.g. Stang et al., 2006; Dalsgaard et al., 2008).”
Biodiversity, species interactions and ecological networks in a fragmented world (2012, background): “For instance, flower abundance can account for much of the variation in linkage level of plants in pollination networks (Stang et al., 2006; but see Olesen et al., 2008).”
Network properties of an epiphyte metacommunity (2007, background): “For example, flower species with long corollas cannot be linked to insect pollinators with short proboscises (Stang et al. 2006), and winter-ripening fruit species growing at high latitudes cannot be dispersed by frugivore species that migrate to the tropics in winter (Burns 2006).”
Response and effect traits of arable weeds in agro‐ecosystems: a review of current knowledge (2017, background): “As a result, size constraints (corolla shape and dimensions) seem important in determining the abundance and diversity of nectar foraging visitors on plants (Stang et al., 2006).”