Niche partitioning due to adaptive foraging reverses effects of nestedness and connectance on pollination network stability
Valdovinos, F.S., B.J. Brosi, H.M. Briggs, P. Moisset de Espanés, R. Ramos-Jiliberto, N.D. Martinez.
Niche partitioning due to adaptive foraging reverses effects of nestedness and connectance on pollination network stability.
Ecology Letters, 2016. 19(10): 1277–1286.
This paper integrates modeling and our field data from Colorado, and shows that “adaptive foraging”—behavioral plasticity in foraging intensity on different resources—is key for stabilizing pollination networks, but has different effects in networks with different structures.