Invasions by alien plants provide a unique opportunity to examine competitive interactions
among plants. While resource competition has long been regarded as a major mechanism …

▪ Abstract Quantifying the extent to which seed production is limited by the availability of
pollen has been an area of intensive empirical study over the past few decades. Whereas …

How will biodiversity loss affect ecosystem functioning, ecosystem services, and human well-
being? In an age of accelerating biodiversity loss, this timely and critical volume summarizes …

Invasive alien species affect the composition and functioning of invaded ecosystems in
many ways, altering ecological interactions that have arisen over evolutionary timescales …

Interspecific pollen transfer (IPT) is one of the mechanisms underlying potential competition
among plants for pollinators, and it refers to movement of pollen between different plant …

Plant–animal mutualisms are characterized by weak or asymmetric mutual dependences
between interacting species, a feature that could increase community stability. If invasive …

Alien plant species can alter pollinator visitation and, in turn, the sexual reproduction of
natives. Using a conventional and a phylogenetically controlled meta‐analytical approach …

Background Co-flowering plant species frequently share pollinators. Pollinator sharing is
often detrimental to one or more of these species, leading to competition for pollination …

Studies of pairwise interactions have shown that an alien plant can affect the pollination of a
native plant, this effect being mediated by shared pollinators. Here we use a manipulative …

The structural organization of mutualism networks, typified by interspecific positive
interactions, is important to maintain community diversity. However, there is little information …