Network specialization tended to decrease with increased rewiring.

Claim · model-written summary

Network specialization tended to decrease with increased rewiring.

Taxon

Olea europaeaOlea europaeae0

Outcome

network specialization (H2')e0

Direction

decreasee0

Qualifier

tended toe0

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Verbatim

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“We sampled pollination interactions in 20 wild Olea europaea communities along a disturbance gradient to evaluate the hypothesis that the loss of natural habitats increases seasonal (within‐year) interaction rewiring in plant‐pollinator communities, influencing their functional structure. For this, we particularly tested whether rewiring frequency was negatively related to the extent of natural habitats surrounding the communities, whether interaction rewiring influenced the static structure of networks (nestedness, network specialization –H2'–), and whether a high generalization (low specialization –d'–) and abundance of species in communities made them more prone to rewiring. We show that habitat loss increased seasonal interaction rewiring in networks. Changes in rewiring were related to changes in the cumulative static structure of pollination networks. Nestedness decreased and network specialization (H2') also tended to decrease as interaction rewiring increased”