Mapping trait versus species turnover reveals spatiotemporal variation in functional redundancy and network robustness in a plant‐pollinator community ...

• Main Authors: Cantwell-Jones, Aoife, Larson, Keith, Ward, Alan, Bates, Olivia, Cox, Tara, Gibbons, Charlotte, Richardson, Ryan, Al-Hayali, Abdullah, Svedin, Johan, Aronsson, Max, Brannlund, Frida, Tylianakis, Jason, Johansson, Jacob, Gill, Richard
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2022
• Subjects: altitudinal gradient; Arctic; Bombus community; Bumblebees; connectance; Modularity; thermal cline; Pollination; FOS Natural sciences
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.qrfj6q5kz; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.qrfj6q5kz

1. Functional overlap among species (redundancy) is considered important in shaping competitive and mutualistic interactions that determine how communities respond to environmental change. Most studies view functional redundancy as static, yet traits within species – which ultimately shape functional redundancy – can vary over seasonal or spatial gradients. We therefore have limited understanding of how trait turnover within and between species could lead to changes in functional redundancy or how loss of traits could differentially impact mutualistic interactions depending on where and when the interactions occur in space and time. 2. Using an Arctic bumblebee community as a case study, and 1,277 individual measures from 14 species over three annual seasons, we quantified how inter- and intraspecific body-size turnover compared to species turnover with elevation and over the season. Coupling every individual and their trait with a plant visitation, we investigated how grouping individuals by a morphological ...