ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021
Experimental evidence of the importance of multitrophic structure for species persistence.
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- Connecting the dots: Managing species interaction networks to mitigate the impacts of global change.eLife · 2025Review
- Interaction network structure explains species' temporal persistence in empirical plant-pollinator communities.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
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- Ranking species based on sensitivity to perturbations under non-equilibrium community dynamics.Ecology letters · 2023Article
- Seasonal structure of interactions enhances multidimensional stability of mutualistic networks.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Towards a system-level causative knowledge of pollinator communities.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Review
- Fine scale prediction of ecological community composition using a two-step sequential Machine Learning ensemble.PLoS computational biology · 2021Article
- Phenological traits foster persistence of mutualistic networks by promoting facilitation.Ecology letters · 2021Article
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Abstract
Ecological theory predicts that species interactions embedded in multitrophic networks shape the opportunities for species to persist. However, the lack of experimental support of this prediction has limited our understanding of how species interactions occurring within and across trophic levels simultaneously regulate the maintenance of biodiversity. Here, we integrate a mathematical approach and detailed experiments in plant-pollinator communities to demonstrate the need to jointly account for species interactions within and across trophic levels when estimating the ability of species to persist. Within the plant trophic level, we show that the persistence probability of plant species increases when introducing the effects of plant-pollinator interactions. Across trophic levels, we show that the persistence probabilities of both plants and pollinators exhibit idiosyncratic changes when experimentally manipulating the multitrophic structure. Importantly, these idiosyncratic effects are not recovered by traditional simulations. Our work provides tractable experimental and theoretical platforms upon which it is possible to investigate the multitrophic factors affecting species persistence in ecological communities.
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