Claim · model-written summary
Network structure changed significantly as replacement of forbs by grasses changed relative abundance across trophic levels.
- Taxon
- forbse0
- Outcome
- network structuree0
- Qualifier
- replacement of forbs by grasses resulted in changes in relative abundance across trophic levelse0
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Verbatim
e0“network structure changed significantly as the replacement of forbs by grasses resulted in changes in relative abundance across trophic levels”
Title
Differential effects of fertilisers on pollination and parasitoid interaction networks
Edith Villa‐Galaviz; Simon M. Smart; Elizabeth L. Clare; et al. Journal of Animal Ecology 2020. doi:10.1111/1365-2656.13373
Other claims from this paper (11)
- Intervention effect The combined mineral fertiliser and farmyard manure treatment had the most significant impact.
- Intervention effect Plant species richness and floral abundance both decreased with the addition of fertiliser.
- Intervention effect Insect species richness was unaffected by fertiliser treatment.
- Intervention effect Fertilised plots had a significantly higher abundance of leaf miners.
- Intervention effect Fertilised plots had a significantly lower abundance of bumblebees.
- Intervention effect Plant-flower-visitor and plant-herbivore networks showed higher vulnerability with fertiliser addition.
- Intervention effect Plant-flower-visitor and plant-herbivore networks showed lower modularity with fertiliser addition.
- Intervention effect Leaf miner-parasitoid networks showed a rise in generality.
- Intervention effect The vulnerability and modularity of flower-visitor networks were the most affected.
- Intervention effect The positive impact on leaf miner abundance was three times higher than the impact on parasitoids.
- Intervention effect The negative impact on bumblebee abundance was double the magnitude of the impact on flower abundance.