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Title: | Linking species functional roles to their network roles | Contributor(s): | Coux, Camille (author); Rader, Romina (author) ; Bartomeus, Ignasi (author); Tylianakis, Jason M (author) | Publication Date: | 2016 | Open Access: | Yes | DOI: | 10.1111/ele.12612 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19542 | Open Access Link: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/146317 | Abstract: | Species roles in ecological networks combine to generate their architecture, which contributes to their stability. Species trait diversity also affects ecosystem functioning and resilience, yet it remains unknown whether species' contributions to functional diversity relate to their network roles. Here, we use 21 empirical pollen transport networks to characterise this relationship. We found that, apart from a few abundant species, pollinators with original traits either had few interaction partners or interacted most frequently with a subset of these partners. This suggests that narrowing of interactions to a subset of the plant community accompanies pollinator niche specialisation, congruent with our hypothesised trade-off between having unique traits vs. being able to interact with many mutualist partners. Conversely, these effects were not detected in plants, potentially because key aspects of their flowering traits are conserved at a family level. Relating functional and network roles can provide further insight into mechanisms underlying ecosystem functioning. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Ecology Letters, 19(7), p. 762-770 | Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | Place of Publication: | United Kingdom | ISSN: | 1461-0248 1461-023X |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 060202 Community Ecology (excl. Invasive Species Ecology) | Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 310302 Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology) | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 960805 Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales 960804 Farmland, Arable Cropland and Permanent Cropland Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 180606 Terrestrial biodiversity | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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