Canopies drive the reassembly of pollinator communities and interaction networks along tropical forest succession
Ugo Mendes Diniz, Dennis Böttger, Sabine Fernanda Viteri Lalama, Kilian Frühholz, Maximilian Pitz, Julia Windl, Claus Rasmussen, Alexander Keller, Sara D. Leonhardt, Gunnar Brehm
The paper examines how canopy structure influences pollinator community recovery and interaction networks during tropical forest succession, finding that stratification is a stronger predictor of diversity than forest legacy.
Biodiversity and Conservation · Aug 26, 2026Peer-reviewedEcology