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Can Pollination Networks Withstand Species Loss? An Examination of Plant–Hummingbird Interactions and Their Responses to Experimental Removal of a Flowering Plant Species

Creator:

Leimberger, Kara G.

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Global environmental change is causing local extinctions of species. When species depend on one another, as in the mutualistic relationship between plants and pollinators, loss of one interaction partner may cause cascading effects within the community – such as additional extinctions and reduced pollination services. Network theory provides a way...

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supply of new ideas to test. Committee members Adam S. Hadley, Berry Brosi, Mark Novak, and Rebecca
Identifying factors driving sensitivity to fragmentation in forest breeding songbirds

Creator:

Valente, Jonathon J.

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Habitat loss and fragmentation are the greatest threats to biodiversity worldwide. Fragmentation impacts landscape configuration, resulting in a larger number of patches that are smaller in size and further apart from one another. Island biogeography and metapopulation theory predict populations in these remnant patches should be smaller, have higher extinction...

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thank Calandra Stanley for being such a great colleague and friend in the field. I thank Rebecca