The robustness of pollination networks to the loss of species and interactions: a quantitative approach incorporating pollinator behaviour

Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 442–452 Abstract Species extinctions pose serious threats to the functioning of ecological communities worldwide. We used two qualitative and quantitative pollination networks to simulate extinction patterns following three removal scenarios: random removal and systematic removal of the strongest and weakest interactors. We accounted for pollinator behaviour by including potential links into temporal snapshots (12...