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Unclusterable, Underdispersed Arrangement of Insect‐pollinated Plants in Pollinator Niche Space by Carlos M. Herrera is a Environmental Science article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Unclusterable, Underdispersed Arrangement of Insect‐pollinated Plants in Pollinator Niche Space about?
Pollinators can mediate facilitative or competitive relationships between plant species, but the relative importance of these two conflicting phenomena in shaping community-wide pollinator resource use remains unexplored. This article examines the idea that the arrangement of large samples of plant species in Hutchinsonian pollinator niche space (n-dimensional hypervolume whose axes represent pollinator types) can help to evaluate the comparative importance of facilitation and competition as drivers of pollinator resource use at the community level. Pollinator composition data were gathered for insect-pollinated plants from the Sierra de Cazorla mountains (southeastern Spain), comprising ~95% of widely distributed insect-pollinated species. The following questions were addressed at regional (45 sites, 221 plant species) and local (1 site, 73 plant species) spatial scales: (1) Do plant species clusters occur in pollinator niche space? Four pollinator niche spaces differing in dimensionality were considered, the axes of which were defined by insect orders, families, genera, and species. (2) If all plant species form a single, indivisible cluster, are they overdispersed or underdisper
Who reads Unclusterable, Underdispersed Arrangement of Insect‐pollinated Plants in Pollinator Niche Space?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Environmental Science.
- Author
- Carlos M. Herrera
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)