Much restoration work starts with plants, assuming pollinators will follow.
This research suggests that assumption does not always hold. Without pollinators, diversity can decline.
It shifts how we think about sequencing in ecosystems.
See what researchers found:
phys.org
Ecologists have long seen a strong connection between biodiversity and pollinators—the butterflies, birds, bats, bees, and other insects that help the flowers they snack on fertilize by transferring…
