Sampling networks of ecological interactions

P Jordano - Functional ecology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Sampling ecological interactions presents similar challenges, problems, potential biases
and constraints as sampling individuals and species in biodiversity inventories. Robust …

Mutualistic networks: moving closer to a predictive theory

FS Valdovinos - Ecology letters, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Plant–animal mutualistic networks sustain terrestrial biodiversity and human food security.
Global environmental changes threaten these networks, underscoring the urgency for …

A critical evaluation of network approaches for studying species interactions

N Blüthgen, M Staab - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Ecological networks of species interactions are popular and provide powerful analytical
tools for understanding variation in community structure and ecosystem functioning …

Identifying causes of patterns in ecological networks: opportunities and limitations

CF Dormann, J Fründ… - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Ecological networks depict the interactions between species, mainly based on observations
in the field. The information contained in such interaction matrices depends on the sampling …

Sampling bias is a challenge for quantifying specialization and network structure: lessons from a quantitative niche model

J Fründ, KS McCann, NM Williams - Oikos, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Network approaches have become a popular tool for understanding ecological complexity in
a changing world. Many network descriptors relate directly or indirectly to specialization …

Processes entangling interactions in communities: forbidden links are more important than abundance in a hummingbird–plant network

J Vizentin-Bugoni, PK Maruyama… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Understanding the relative importance of multiple processes on structuring species
interactions within communities is one of the major challenges in ecology. Here, we …

Insect pollinators collect pollen from wind‐pollinated plants: implications for pollination ecology and sustainable agriculture

ME Saunders - Insect conservation and diversity, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Current research, management and outreach programmes relevant to insect pollinator
conservation are strongly focused on relationships between pollinators and insect …

Temporal scale‐dependence of plant–pollinator networks

B Schwarz, DP Vázquez, PJ CaraDonna, TM Knight… - Oikos, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The study of mutualistic interaction networks has led to valuable insights into ecological and
evolutionary processes. However, our understanding of network structure may depend upon …

Using multi‐scale spatially explicit frameworks to understand the relationship between functional diversity and species richness

AF Suárez‐Castro, M Raymundo, M Bimler… - …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding how ecosystem functioning is impacted by global change drivers is a central
topic in ecology and conservation science. We need to assess not only how environmental …

Influences of sampling effort on detected patterns and structuring processes of a Neotropical plant–hummingbird network

J Vizentin‐Bugoni, PK Maruyama… - Journal of Animal …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Virtually all empirical ecological interaction networks to some extent suffer from
undersampling. However, how limitations imposed by sampling incompleteness affect our …