Blanca Arroyo‐Correa

The paper shows climate, not latitude, drives plant-pollinator specialisation globally, with specialisation peaking at northern mid-latitudes and declining in warmer, more seasonal climates.

The paper integrates intraspecific variation into population dynamics to show how mutualistic species persist, finding that specialized individuals promote persistence without competitors, but heterogeneous mixtures are better with competitors.

The paper downscaling mutualistic networks from species to individuals reveals consistent interaction niches and roles within plant populations, showing individual-based networks are structurally similar to species-based ones.