Insect responses to heat: physiological mechanisms, evolution and ecological implications in a warming world

D González‐Tokman, A Córdoba‐Aguilar… - Biological …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Surviving changing climate conditions is particularly difficult for organisms such as insects
that depend on environmental temperature to regulate their physiological functions. Insects …

Synthesis and perspectives on the study of ant‐plant interaction networks: A global overview

B Juárez‐Juárez, W Dáttilo… - Ecological Entomology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In recent decades, the interest in complexity of ant‐plant relationships has increased
considerably. However, because the spatial and biological information generated on ant …

Structure, spatial dynamics, and stability of novel seed dispersal mutualistic networks in Hawai ʻ i

J Vizentin-Bugoni, CE Tarwater, JT Foster, DR Drake… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Increasing rates of human-caused species invasions and extinctions may reshape
communities and modify the structure, dynamics, and stability of species interactions. To …

Disentangling the effects of local resources, landscape heterogeneity and climatic seasonality on bee diversity and plant-pollinator networks in tropical highlands

N Escobedo-Kenefic, P Landaverde-González… - Oecologia, 2020 - Springer
Land-use alteration and climate seasonality have profound effects on bee species diversity
by influencing the availability of nesting and floral resources. Here, using twelve sites …

The compound topology of host–parasite networks is explained by the integrative hypothesis of specialization

GM Felix, RBP Pinheiro, R Poulin, BR Krasnov… - Oikos, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
What is the prevalent topology among interaction networks? How do consumers balance
between generalism and performance when exploiting different resources? These two long …

Ant pollination of Paepalanthus lundii (Eriocaulaceae) in Brazilian savanna

K Del-Claro, D Rodriguez-Morales, ES Calixto… - Annals of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Background and Aims Ant–plant associations are widely diverse and distributed
throughout the world, leading to complex ecological networks. Regarding ant–plant …

Landscape heterogeneity and soil biota are central to multi-taxa diversity for oil palm landscape restoration

V Montoya-Sánchez, H Kreft, I Arimond… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
Enhancing biodiversity in monoculture-dominated landscapes is a key sustainability
challenge that requires considering the spatial organization of ecological communities (beta …

Global trends in the trophic specialisation of flower‐visitor networks are explained by current and historical climate

P Luna, F Villalobos, F Escobar, FS Neves… - Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Trophic specialisation is known to vary across space, but the environmental factors
explaining such variation remain elusive. Here we used a global dataset of flower‐visitor …

The dilemma of binary or weighted data in interaction networks

PN Miranda, JEL da Silva Ribeiro, P Luna, I Brasil… - Ecological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Despite the increasing number of studies dealing with interaction networks in the last few
years, there is still a lack of knowledge about how their structural organization are affected …

Forest cover and landscape heterogeneity shape ant–plant co-occurrence networks in human-dominated tropical rainforests

EJ Corro, DA Ahuatzin, AA Jaimes, ME Favila… - Landscape …, 2019 - Springer
Context The effects of habitat loss and fragmentation on biodiversity involve a series of
mechanisms and processes that cannot be studied in isolation, mainly because human …