Estimating the risk of species interaction loss in mutualistic communities
dc.contributor.author | Simmons, BI | |
dc.contributor.author | Wauchope, HS | |
dc.contributor.author | Amano, T | |
dc.contributor.author | Dicks, LV | |
dc.contributor.author | Sutherland, WJ | |
dc.contributor.author | Dakos, V | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-09-14T15:05:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2020-08-31 | |
dc.description.abstract | Interactions between species generate the functions on which ecosystems and humans depend. However, we lack an understanding of the risk that interaction loss poses to ecological communities. Here, we quantify the risk of interaction loss for 4,330 species interactions from 41 empirical pollination and seed dispersal networks across 6 continents. We estimate risk as a function of interaction vulnerability to extinction (likelihood of loss) and contribution to network feasibility, a measure of how much an interaction helps a community tolerate environmental perturbations. Remarkably, we find that more vulnerable interactions have higher contributions to network feasibility. Furthermore, interactions tend to have more similar vulnerability and contribution to feasibility across networks than expected by chance, suggesting that vulnerability and feasibility contribution may be intrinsic properties of interactions, rather than only a function of ecological context. These results may provide a starting point for prioritising interactions for conservation in species interaction networks in the future. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Cambridge Trust | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Cambridge Department of Zoology | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Kenneth Miller Trust | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Australian Research Council (ARC) | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Arcadia | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 18 (8), article e3000843 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1371/journal.pbio.3000843 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/L002507/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | T180100354 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/K015419/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/N014472/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/122862 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Public Library of Science (PLoS) | en_GB |
dc.relation.url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32866143 | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2020 Simmons et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | en_GB |
dc.title | Estimating the risk of species interaction loss in mutualistic communities | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2020-09-14T15:05:16Z | |
exeter.place-of-publication | United States | en_GB |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from the Public Library of Science via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data Availability: All networks are publicly available from the Web of Life repository (www.web-of-life.es) and Data Dryad (https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.76173). The raw data for S5 Analysis can be found at https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.dncjsxkw2. The data underlying all plots except Figure A in S3 Analysis can be found at https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.12689258.v1. The data underlying Figure A in S3 Analysis can be found at https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.cr3ft | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 1545-7885 | |
dc.identifier.journal | PLoS Biology | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2020-07-31 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2020-08-31 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2020-09-14T15:00:17Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2020-09-14T15:05:22Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
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