The role of alien species on plant-floral visitor network structure in invaded communities.
The interactions between pairs of native and alien plants via shared use of pollinators have been widely studied. Community level studies however, are necessary in order to fully understand the factors and mechanisms that facilitate successful plant invasion, but these are still scarce. Specifically...
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| author | Víctor Parra-Tabla Diego Angulo-Pérez Cristopher Albor María José Campos-Navarrete Juan Tun-Garrido Paula Sosenski Conchita Alonso Tia-Lynn Ashman Gerardo Arceo-Gómez |
| author_facet | Víctor Parra-Tabla Diego Angulo-Pérez Cristopher Albor María José Campos-Navarrete Juan Tun-Garrido Paula Sosenski Conchita Alonso Tia-Lynn Ashman Gerardo Arceo-Gómez |
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| description | The interactions between pairs of native and alien plants via shared use of pollinators have been widely studied. Community level studies however, are necessary in order to fully understand the factors and mechanisms that facilitate successful plant invasion, but these are still scarce. Specifically, few community level studies have considered how differences in invasion level (alien flower abundance), and degree of floral trait similarity between native and invasive species, mediate effects on native plant-pollinator communities. Here, we evaluated the role of alien species on overall plant-floral visitor network structure, and on species-level network parameters, across nine invaded coastal communities distributed along 205 km in Yucatán, México that vary in alien species richness and flower abundance. We further assessed the potential the role of alien plant species on plant-floral visitor network structure and robustness via computational simulation of native and invasive plant extinction scenarios. We did not find significant differences between native and alien species in their functional floral phenotypes or in their visitation rate and pollinator community composition in these invaded sites. Variation in the proportion of alien plant species and flower abundance across sites did not influence plant-pollinator network structure. Species-level network parameters (i.e., normalized degree and nestedness contribution) did not differ between native and alien species. Furthermore, our simulation analyses revealed that alien species are functionally equivalent to native species and contribute equally to network structure and robustness. Overall, our results suggest that high levels of floral trait similarity and pollinator use overlap may help facilitate the integration of alien species into native plant-pollinator networks. As a result, alien species may also play a similar role than that of natives in the structure and stability of native plant and pollinator communities in the studied coastal sand dune ecosystem. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6bb69fe63ad14036a7c887fdfc1092a52022-12-21T20:40:23ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032019-01-011411e021822710.1371/journal.pone.0218227The role of alien species on plant-floral visitor network structure in invaded communities.Víctor Parra-TablaDiego Angulo-PérezCristopher AlborMaría José Campos-NavarreteJuan Tun-GarridoPaula SosenskiConchita AlonsoTia-Lynn AshmanGerardo Arceo-GómezThe interactions between pairs of native and alien plants via shared use of pollinators have been widely studied. Community level studies however, are necessary in order to fully understand the factors and mechanisms that facilitate successful plant invasion, but these are still scarce. Specifically, few community level studies have considered how differences in invasion level (alien flower abundance), and degree of floral trait similarity between native and invasive species, mediate effects on native plant-pollinator communities. Here, we evaluated the role of alien species on overall plant-floral visitor network structure, and on species-level network parameters, across nine invaded coastal communities distributed along 205 km in Yucatán, México that vary in alien species richness and flower abundance. We further assessed the potential the role of alien plant species on plant-floral visitor network structure and robustness via computational simulation of native and invasive plant extinction scenarios. We did not find significant differences between native and alien species in their functional floral phenotypes or in their visitation rate and pollinator community composition in these invaded sites. Variation in the proportion of alien plant species and flower abundance across sites did not influence plant-pollinator network structure. Species-level network parameters (i.e., normalized degree and nestedness contribution) did not differ between native and alien species. Furthermore, our simulation analyses revealed that alien species are functionally equivalent to native species and contribute equally to network structure and robustness. Overall, our results suggest that high levels of floral trait similarity and pollinator use overlap may help facilitate the integration of alien species into native plant-pollinator networks. As a result, alien species may also play a similar role than that of natives in the structure and stability of native plant and pollinator communities in the studied coastal sand dune ecosystem.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218227 |
| spellingShingle | Víctor Parra-Tabla Diego Angulo-Pérez Cristopher Albor María José Campos-Navarrete Juan Tun-Garrido Paula Sosenski Conchita Alonso Tia-Lynn Ashman Gerardo Arceo-Gómez The role of alien species on plant-floral visitor network structure in invaded communities. PLoS ONE |
| title | The role of alien species on plant-floral visitor network structure in invaded communities. |
| title_full | The role of alien species on plant-floral visitor network structure in invaded communities. |
| title_fullStr | The role of alien species on plant-floral visitor network structure in invaded communities. |
| title_full_unstemmed | The role of alien species on plant-floral visitor network structure in invaded communities. |
| title_short | The role of alien species on plant-floral visitor network structure in invaded communities. |
| title_sort | role of alien species on plant floral visitor network structure in invaded communities |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0218227 |
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