Premise Many animals provide ecosystem services in the form of pollination including
honeybees, which have become globally dominant floral visitors. A rich literature documents …

Biological pest control and pollination are vital ecosystem services that are usually studied
in isolation, given that they are typically provided by different guilds of arthropods. Hoverflies …

Most flowering plants require animal pollination and are visited by multiple pollinator
species. Historically, the effects of pollinators on plant fitness have been compared using the …

Pollinators influence patterns of plant speciation, and one intuitive hypothesis is that
pollinators affect rates of plant diversification through their effects on pollen dispersal. By …

Pollinating insects are declining due to habitat loss and climate change, and cities with
limited habitat and floral resources may be particularly vulnerable. The effects of urban …

Premise Animal pollinators play an important role in pollen dispersal. Here, we assessed
differences in pollen and seed dispersal and the role of pollinator functional groups with …

Animal-mediated pollination is essential for the maintenance of plant reproduction,
especially in tropical ecosystems, where pollination networks have been thought to have …

Premise Reproductive fitness in plants is often determined by the quantity and quality of
pollen transferred by pollinators. However, many fitness studies measure only female fitness …

Mutualism effectiveness, the contribution of an interacting organism to its partner's fitness, is
defined as the number of immediate outcomes of the interactions (quantity component) …

Ecological communities are dynamic entities subjected to extinction/colonization events.
Because species are connected through complex interaction networks, the arrival of a new …