Climate mediates roles of pollinator species in plant–pollinator networks

作者：Manu E. Saunders, Liam Kendall, Jose B. Lanuza, Mark Hall, Romina Rader, Jamie R. Stavert · 发表于：Global Ecology and Biogeography · 年份：2023 · DOI：10.1111/geb.13643 · 被引用次数：24 · 研究领域：Plant and animal studies、Insect and Pesticide Research、Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior

Abstract Aim Understanding how climate conditions influence plant–pollinator interactions at the global scale is crucial to understand how pollinator communities and ecosystem function respond to environmental change. Here, we investigate whether climate drives differences in network roles of the main insect pollinator orders: Diptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera. Location Global. Time period 1968–2020. Major taxa studied Diptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera and Hymenoptera. Methods We collated plant–pollinator networks from 26 countries and territories across the five main Köppen–Geiger climate zones. In total, we compiled data from 101 networks that included >1500 plant species from 167 families and >2800 pollinator species from 163 families. We assessed differences in the composition of plant–pollinator interactions among climate zones using a permutational ANOVA. We calculated standard network metrics for pollinator taxonomic groups and used Bayesian generalized mixed models to test whether climate zone influenced the proportion of pollinator network links and the level of pollinator generalism. Results We found that climate is a strong driver of compositional dissimilarities between plant–pollinator interactions. Relative to other taxa, bees and flies made up the greatest proportion of network links across climate zones. When network size was accounted for, bees were the most generalist pollinator group in the tropics, whereas non‐bee Hymenoptera were the m...