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Recent fire in a Mediterranean ecosystem strengthens hoverfly populations and their interaction networks with plants

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ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
卷 13, 期 2, 页码 -

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9803

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disturbance; mediterranean ecosystems; pollination; post-fire recovery; syrphidae; wildfires

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Fire has significant impacts on ecological processes, including pollination, and the effects of climate change on fire patterns can have unpredictable consequences. This study investigates the effects of a severe wildfire on hoverfly pollinators in a Mediterranean island system. The researchers found that hoverfly abundance and species richness peaked in the first year after the fire, with larger, less specialized, and more diverse pollination networks. However, these effects declined over the next two years, highlighting the importance of long-term monitoring to understand the responses of natural communities to wildfires.
Fire affects many critical ecological processes, including pollination, and effects of climate change on fire regimes may have profound consequences that are difficult to predict. Considerable work has examined effects of fire on pollinator diversity, but relatively few studies have examined these effects on interaction networks including those of pollinators other than bees. We examined the effects of a severe wildfire on hoverfly pollinators in a Mediterranean island system. Using data collected over 3 consecutive years at burnt and unburnt sites, we documented differences in species diversity, abundance, and functional traits, as well as hoverfly interactions with flowering plants. Hoverfly abundance and species richness peaked during the first post-fire flowering season (year 1), which coincided with the presence of many opportunistic species. Also in year 1, hoverfly pollination networks were larger, less specialized, more nested, and less modular at burnt (vs. unburnt) sites; furthermore, these networks exhibited higher phylogenetic host-plant diversity. These effects declined over the next 2 years, with burnt and unburnt sites converging in similarity to hoverfly communities and interaction networks. While data obtained over 3 years provide a clear timeline of initial post-fire recovery, we emphasize the importance of longer-term monitoring for understanding the responses of natural communities to wildfires, which are projected to become more frequent and more destructive in the future.

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