Robustness of plant-flower visitor webs to simulated climate change
Climate change threatens the integrity of pollination webs by decoupling plants and flower visitors both phenologically and ecologically. We simulated a range shift of flower-visitor species along a steep east-west rainfall gradient to explore resulting patterns of extinction. The systems studied s...
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Asociación Argentina de Ecología
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| author | Mariano Devoto Martín Zimmermann Diego Medan |
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Climate change threatens the integrity of pollination webs by decoupling plants and flower visitors both phenologically and ecologically. We simulated a range shift of flower-visitor species along a steep east-west rainfall gradient to explore resulting patterns of extinction. The systems studied seemed to be rather robust to range shifts. This results from (a) the positive correlation between the geographic range and both the local (i.e. at each site) and the regional (i.e. pooling across sites) number of interaction partners of the plants and flower visitors of these webs, and (b) a nested assembly of interactions at the regional level. In a broader context, this study reveals itself as a useful tool for understanding the links between the interaction pattern of mutualistic webs and their response to a major threat such as climate change.
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| spelling | doaj.art-38c16ab46de3480a81630940d6516ed82023-11-13T18:37:25ZengAsociación Argentina de EcologíaEcología Austral0327-54771667-782X2007-06-01171Robustness of plant-flower visitor webs to simulated climate changeMariano Devoto0Martín Zimmermann1Diego Medan2Cátedra de Botánica, Facultad de Agronomía de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.Depto. de Física, Fac. de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Univ. de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.Cátedra de Botánica, Facultad de Agronomía de la Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Climate change threatens the integrity of pollination webs by decoupling plants and flower visitors both phenologically and ecologically. We simulated a range shift of flower-visitor species along a steep east-west rainfall gradient to explore resulting patterns of extinction. The systems studied seemed to be rather robust to range shifts. This results from (a) the positive correlation between the geographic range and both the local (i.e. at each site) and the regional (i.e. pooling across sites) number of interaction partners of the plants and flower visitors of these webs, and (b) a nested assembly of interactions at the regional level. In a broader context, this study reveals itself as a useful tool for understanding the links between the interaction pattern of mutualistic webs and their response to a major threat such as climate change. https://ojs.ecologiaaustral.com.ar/index.php/Ecologia_Austral/article/view/1421mutualism disruptionplant-pollinator interactionPatagoniaglobal changeextinctionnestedness |
| spellingShingle | Mariano Devoto Martín Zimmermann Diego Medan Robustness of plant-flower visitor webs to simulated climate change Ecología Austral mutualism disruption plant-pollinator interaction Patagonia global change extinction nestedness |
| title | Robustness of plant-flower visitor webs to simulated climate change |
| title_full | Robustness of plant-flower visitor webs to simulated climate change |
| title_fullStr | Robustness of plant-flower visitor webs to simulated climate change |
| title_full_unstemmed | Robustness of plant-flower visitor webs to simulated climate change |
| title_short | Robustness of plant-flower visitor webs to simulated climate change |
| title_sort | robustness of plant flower visitor webs to simulated climate change |
| topic | mutualism disruption plant-pollinator interaction Patagonia global change extinction nestedness |
| url | https://ojs.ecologiaaustral.com.ar/index.php/Ecologia_Austral/article/view/1421 |
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