Rodrigo Medel

TL;DR: A novel model proposes a novel approach that relates the diversity of both species and interactions along a gradient of environmental deterioration and explores how the rate of loss of ecological functions, and consequently of ecosystem services, can be accelerated or restrained depending on how the rates of species loss covaries with the rateof interactions loss.

TL;DR: World regions of particular concern are identified where environmentally damaging practices associated with large‐scale, industrial agriculture threaten key ecosystem services that underlie productivity, in addition to other benefits provided by biodiversity.

TL;DR: It is suggested that pollinator-mediated selection favoring extreme phenotypes in M. luteus may not only contribute to high nectar guide variation found in this species, but also can promote divergence of corolla and nectar guides traits.

TL;DR: Results suggest that diversification of flower traits in Schizanthus has occurred in relation to pollinator shifts, and suggest that the moth syndrome evolved in the ancestor of three species that inhabit the Atacama Desert.

TL;DR: Examination of how variation in sampling completeness influences the estimation of six network metrics frequently used in the literature indicates that nestedness, modularity, and robustness to species loss were less influenced by insufficient sampling than connectance, path length, and centralization, while robustness was mildly influenced by sampling evenness.