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Addition of nocturnal pollinators modifies the structure of pollination networks

Publicated to:Scientific Reports. 14 (1): 1226- - 2024-01-12 14(1), DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-49944-y

Authors: Garcia, Yedra; Gimenez-Benavides, Luis; Iriondo, Jose M; Lara-Romero, Carlos; Mendez, Marcos; Morente-Lopez, Javier; Santamaria, Silvia

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Inst Prod Nat & Agrobiol IPNA CSIC, Isl Ecol & Evolut Res Grp, Avda Astrofisico Francisco Sanchez 3, E-38206 San Cristobal La Laguna - Author
Lund Univ, Dept Biol - Author
Univ Rey Juan Carlos, Area Biodivers & Conservat, ESCET, C Tulipan S-N, E-28933 Mostoles - Author

Abstract

Although the ecological network approach has substantially contributed to the study of plant-pollinator interactions, current understanding of their functional structure is biased towards diurnal pollinators. Nocturnal pollinators have been systematically ignored despite the publication of several studies that have tried to alleviate this diurnal bias. Here, we explored whether adding this neglected group of pollinators had a relevant effect on the overall architecture of three high mountain plant-pollinator networks. Including nocturnal moth pollinators modified network properties by decreasing total connectivity, connectance, nestedness and robustness to plant extinction; and increasing web asymmetry and modularity. Nocturnal moths were not preferentially connected to the most linked plants of the networks, and they were grouped into a specific night module in only one of the three networks. Our results indicate that ignoring the nocturnal component of plant-pollinator networks may cause changes in network properties different from those expected from random undersampling of diurnal pollinators. Consequently, the neglect of nocturnal interactions may provide a distorted view of the structure of plant-pollinator networks with relevant implications for conservation assessments.

Keywords
AnimalAnimalsArticleCommunitiesCompartmentalizationCompetitionEvolutionFlower-visitorInsectInsectaMothMothsMountainNightPlantPlant pollinator interactionPlantsPollen-transport networksPollinationPollinatorRobustnessSampling completeness

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Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Scientific Reports due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2024 there are still no calculated indicators, but in 2023, it was in position 25/134, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Multidisciplinary Sciences.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-05-08:

  • WoS: 6
  • Scopus: 7
  • Europe PMC: 3
  • OpenCitations: 2
Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-05-08:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 17.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 17 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 34.71.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 16 (Altmetric).

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
Leadership analysis of institutional authors

This work has been carried out with international collaboration, specifically with researchers from: Sweden.

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (García Cid, Yolanda) and Last Author ().

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Lara Romero, Carlos.