ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2022
Many bee species, including rare species, are important for function of entire plant-pollinator networks.
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- Using isolation-by-distance to jointly estimate effective population density and dispersal distance: a practical evaluation using bumble bees.Oecologia · 2025Article
- Wild Bee Assemblages and Pollination Networks of Managed Emergent Wetlands in Central New York, USA.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Nutritional position of managed honey bees during pollination of native plants by the melissopalynology method.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Warming induces short-term phenological shifts in pollinator-plant interactions that enhance larval development in honey bee.PloS one · 2024Article
- Alternative measures of trait-niche relationships: A test on dispersal traits in saproxylic beetles.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- The impact of geography and climate on the population structure and local adaptation in a wild bee.Evolutionary applications · 2023Article
- Limited evidence for quantitative contribution of rare and endangered species to agricultural production.Agriculture, ecosystems & environment · 2023Article
- Many bee species, including rare species, are important for function of entire plant-pollinator networks.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
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Abstract
It is important to understand how biodiversity, including that of rare species, affects ecosystem function. Here, we consider this question with regard to pollination. Studies of pollination function have typically focused on pollination of single plant species, or average pollination across plants, and typically find that pollination depends on a few common species. Here, we used data from 11 plant-bee visitation networks in New Jersey, USA, to ask whether the number of functionally important bee species changes as we consider function separately for each plant species in increasingly diverse plant communities. Using rarefaction analysis, we found the number of important bee species increased with the number of plant species. Overall, 2.5 to 7.6 times more bee species were important at the community scale, relative to the average plant species in the same community. This effect did not asymptote in any of our datasets, suggesting that even greater bee biodiversity is needed in real-world systems. Lastly, on average across plant communities, 25% of bee species that were important at the community scale were also numerically rare within their network, making this study one of the strongest empirical demonstrations to date of the functional importance of rare species.
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