The nested assembly of plant–animal mutualistic networks

By Jordi Bascompte, Pedro Jordano, Carlos J. Melián, J. Olesen. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2003

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

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Plant-Animal Mutualistic Networks: The Architecture of Biodiversity (2007, background): “the species generalists interact with; [ 3 ]); and built upon weak and asymmetric links among species (in the few cases in which a plant, for instance, interacts strongly with an animal, the animal interacts weakly with the plant; [4]).”
Describe, understand and predict: why do we need networks in ecology? (2016, background): “ture of ecological communities (de Ruiter et al. 1995; Neutel et al. 2002; Bascompte et al. 2003; Krause et al. 2003) and the dynamic or functional consequences of”
How does climate warming affect plant-pollinator interactions? (2009, background): “…meaning that if a plant is very important to a pollinator (a high percentage of the pollinator s visits are to this particular plant), the importance of this pollinator to the plant is low (a low percentage of the visits received by the plant comes from this pollinator) (Bascompte et al. 2006).”
Conservation and restoration of plant–animal mutualisms on oceanic islands (2010, background): “highly generalised species, and are therefore able to provide stable interaction partners to rare specialists (Olesen et al., 2002; Bascompte et al., 2003; Dupont et al., 2003; Kaiser, 2006, KaiserBunbury et al., 2009).”
On nestedness in ecological networks (2010, methodology): “…used fixed row and fixed column constrained null models to show that nestedness in several sets of ecological networks is statistically rare (Ulrich and Gotelli, 2007; Almeida-Neto et al., 2008; Dormann et al., 2009; Ulrich et al., 2009), contradicting the early results of Bascompte et al. (2003).”
Long-term erosion of tree reproductive trait diversity in edge-dominated Atlantic forest fragments (2009, background): “Additionally, plant–animal mutualistic interactions in this ecosystem consist of intricate networks (Jordano, 1987; Memmott, 1999) in which the number of interactions increases with overall network complexity and nestedness (Bascompte et al., 2003).”
The Network Structure of Food Webs (2005, background): “The evolutionary and ecological dynamics of such mutualistic relationships may place unique constraints on the network structure of such interactions and the dynamical stability of such networks (Jordano 1987; Memmott 1999; Jordano et al. 2003; Bascompte et al. 2003; Vásquez and Aizen 2004).”
Structure and dynamics of core/periphery networks (2013, background): “In other words, in a nested ecosystem the interactions of specialist species are usually a proper subset of the interactions of less specialist species [6].”
Assessing bee species richness in two Mediterranean communities: importance of habitat type and sampling techniques (2011, methodology): “To assess whether the nestedness temperatures were lower than what could be expected by chance alone we generated 100 species distributions with null model Ce (null model 2 sensu Bascompte et al. 2003 ).”
Tolerance of pollination networks to species extinctions (2004, background): “An additional contributor to tolerance upon removal of the most-linked pollinators is nestedness ( Atmar & Patterson 1993; Bascompte et al. 2003).”