Pollinator facilitation between florally contrasting congeners scales up to regional co‐occurrence patterns
Journal: Journal of Ecology
Year: 2025

Abstract Plant–plant facilitation is pervasive in nature and can have community‐wide consequences directly through amelioration of abiotic stress or indirectly through shared mutualists. Despite being widely demonstrated within local communities, indirect facilitation via pollinators varies in its impact on plant fitness and has rarely been tested for its role in structuring communities at larger spatial scales. We hypothesized that pollinator facilitation among closely related but florally cont