Tolerance of pollination networks to species extinctions

By J. Memmott, N. Waser, M. V. Price. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series B: Biological Sciences, 2004

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Decline of bumble bees (Bombus) in the North American Midwest (2009, background): “Therefore, bumble bee declines are expected to have devastating effects on pollination and ecosystem functioning (Memmott et al., 2004; Goulson et al., 2005, 2008; Olesen et al., 2007).”
The effect of grazing on bumblebees in the high rangelands of the eastern Tibetan Plateau of Sichuan (2008, background): “pollination networks can have particularly strong effects on rates of decline in plant species diversity (Memmott et al. 2004) and can be important for endangered plants (Kearns and Thomson 2001).”
Complexity and stability of ecological networks: a review of the theory (2018, background): “For example, extinction cascades following the removal of the most generalist pollinator in a pollination community have been shown to happen only linearly because of the stabilizing effect of nestedness (Memmott et al. 2004).”
Relationships among ecological traits of wild bee communities along gradients of habitat amount and fragmentation (2017, background): “In such landscapes, wild bees play a pivotal role in the maintenance of biodiversity and ecosystem processes, by their contribution to crop and wild plant pollination (Memmott et al. 2004, Klein et al. 2007, Garibaldi et al. 2013).”
The Structure of Ecological Networks Across Levels of Organization (2020, background): “…of how indirect effects propagate across the system, affecting species abundances (Buck 2019,Wootton 1994, Yodzis 1988), extinction dynamics (Memmott et al. 2004, Solé & Montoya 2001, Vieira & Almeida-Neto 2015), the flow of energy and matter in ecosystems (Hannon 1973, Meysman & Bruers…”
Ecosystem Services: Origins, Contributions, Pitfalls, and Alternatives (2013, background): “But many researchers (mostly ecologists) continue to treat internal processes on par with final processes (e.g., nutrient cycling in Costanza et al. 1997; Balmford et al. 2002; Zhao et al. 2004; and pollination of natural flowering plants in Memmott et al. 2004).”
How does climate warming affect plant-pollinator interactions? (2009, background): “Earlier simulation studies have shown that pollination networks may be quite resistant to perturbations (Fortuna & Bascompte 2006; Memmott et al. 2004), but that they may also experience significant structural changes when perturbed (Vazquez & Simberloff 2003; Aizen et al. 2008).”
Size constraints and flower abundance determine the number of interactions in a plant /flower visitor web (2006, background): “It may help to predict the susceptibility of flower visitation webs to disturbance and thus facilitate the conservation of species diversity (Corbet, 2000b; Memmott et al., 2004a).”
Biodiversity, species interactions and ecological networks in a fragmented world (2012, background): “…functional groups (Hobbs et al., 1995; Körner, 1993) may be redundant, which is critical to network persistence under species extinction scenarios (Kaiser-Bunbury et al., 2010; Memmott et al., 2004) and other perturbations (Aizen et al., 2008; Kaiser-Bunbury et al., 2011; Tylianakis et al., 2007).”
The Network Structure of Food Webs (2005, neutral): “While the previous species removal studies (Jordán and Molnár 1999; Solé and Montoya 2001; Dunne et al. 2002b, 2004; Memmott et al. 2004; Allesina and Bodini 2004) are informed by a purely network-structure perspective that ignores dynamics, it has been demonstrated repeatedly that constraints…”
Long-term erosion of tree reproductive trait diversity in edge-dominated Atlantic forest fragments (2009, background): “Unfortunately, the role played by complex and strongly structured mutualistic networks in ecosystem functioning remains poorly understood (Memmott et al., 2004; Fontaine et al., 2006; Jordano et al., 2006), but biodiversity persistence relies on the integrity of these networks (Bascompte and…”
Ecological networks, nestedness and sampling effort (2007, background): “there is a core group of generalists all interacting with each other, with extreme specialists interacting only with generalist species (Bascompte et al . 2003) (Fig. 1). Numerous studies have revealed this nested structure and have discussed its evolutionary and ecological reasons and consequences ”
Structure in plant–animal interaction assemblages (2006, background): “The stringent assumptions of coevolution � / symmetry, mutual strength, and specificity (Janzen 1980, Wheelwright and Orians 1982) � / are not held in these assemblages, and their structure cannot be accounted for either by one-to-one, or by entirely diffuse, evolutionary processes (Memmott 1999, Ba”