A New Native Plant in the Neighborhood: Effects on Plant–Pollinator Networks, Pollination, and Plant Reproductive Success

Abstract

Changes in plant community composition are a common phenomenon under the current climate change scenario, in which plants are modifying their distribution ranges. In a recently published paper in Ecology, we showed that after an experimental colonization of a natural plant community by a native plant, pollina-tor community, plant-pollinator interactions, network structure, pollination, and plant reproductive success are altered. We demonstrated that the relationships between plants and pollinators are rapidly rearranged in response to novel situations , and we shed light into the link between network structure and function , which may be mediated by differences among pollinator species in foraging behavior.