Modelling plant-pollinator interactions with mixtures of linkage rules
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It is common to represent a mutualistic network as a bipartite graph in which nodes represent plant and pollinator species and lines represent interactions between plant pollinator pair. Many pollination ecologists recognize that a pollinator species that has a colour preference may be expected to have higher visit frequencies for plants of that colour. In contrast, no visits may be expected between flowers with long tubal lengths and insects with shorter proboscises. Hence a model for plant-pollinator species interaction probabilities should take these linkage rules into account. A pollinator species that has a colour preference may be expected to have higher visit frequencies for plants of that colour. In contrast, no visits may be expected between flowers with long tubal lengths and insects with shorter proboscises. Hence a model for plant-pollinator interaction probabilities should take these linkage rules into account.
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