2024-03-29T13:07:38Z
https://easy.dans.knaw.nl/oai/
oai:easy.dans.knaw.nl:easy-dataset:81184
2022-11-18T23:40:04Z
D20000
Pocock, Michael J. O.
Evans, Darren M.
Memmott, Jane
Data from: The robustness and restoration of a network of ecological networks
Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
2012
Life sciences, medicine and health care
2012-02-24T17:11:21.000+01:00
2012-02-24T17:11:21.000+01:00
Dataset
10.5061/dryad.3s36r118
urn:nbn:nl:ui:13-ua-to5d
easy-dataset:81184
info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
License: http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
Understanding species’ interactions and the robustness of interaction networks to species loss is essential to understand the effects of species’ declines and extinctions. In most studies, different types of networks (such as food webs, parasitoid webs, seed dispersal networks, and pollination networks) have been studied separately. We sampled such multiple networks simultaneously in an agroecosystem. We show that the networks varied in their robustness; networks including pollinators appeared to be particularly fragile. We show that, overall, networks did not strongly covary in their robustness, which suggests that ecological restoration (for example, through agri-environment schemes) benefitting one functional group will not inevitably benefit others. Some individual plant species were disproportionately well linked to many other species. This type of information can be used in restoration management, because it identifies the plant taxa that can potentially lead to disproportionate gains in biodiversity.