Restoration of Degraded Alpine Meadows Improves Pollination Network Robustness and Function in the Tibetan Plateau

Ecological restoration is widely used to mitigate the negative impacts of anthropogenic activities. There an increasing demand identify suitable management strategies for specific habitat and disturbance types restore interactions between organisms degraded habitats, such as pollination. In Tibetan Plateau, alpine meadows have suffered severe degradation due overgrazing climate change. Protecting vegetation by fencing during growing season a applied regime grasslands in this region. Here, we investigated effect strategy on plant–pollinator communities plant reproduction eastern Plateau. We collected interaction seed set data monthly across three grazed (grazed all year) ungrazed (fenced season) seasons two consecutive years. found produced more flowers attracted pollinator visits. Many common network metrics, nestedness, connectance, specialization, modularity, did not differ grazing treatments. However, plants were robust secondary species extinction than those meadows. The observed changes networks corresponded with higher that rely pollinators reproduction. Our results indicate protection from improves pollination stability function thus viable approach