Shifts in northern Arizona plant and insect pollinator communities between 2 years with substantially different precipitation totals

Chesshire, Paige R.; Holeski, Liza M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/we-25-5-2025

Articles | Volume 25, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/we-25-5-2025

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https://doi.org/10.5194/we-25-5-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 25, issue 1

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10 Jan 2025

Standard article |

| 10 Jan 2025

Shifts in northern Arizona plant and insect pollinator communities between 2 years with substantially different precipitation totals

Paige R. Chesshire and Liza M. Holeski

Supplement

https://doi.org/10.5194/we-25-5-2025-supplement

Data sets

Shifts in northern Arizona plant and insect pollinator communities between two years with substantially different precipitation totals Paige R. Chesshire https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.24944643

Impacts of short-term drought on insect pollinator communities and plant-pollinator interactions in northern Arizona Paige R. Chesshire https://figshare.com/s/11ed753e3cbeb89d3046

Short summary

We evaluated shifts in plant–pollinator communities between two years with different precipitation patterns on a mountain gradient in Arizona. We found that plant richness decreased, pollinator generalization increased at the highest life zone, and plant and pollinator activity was less consistent in the dry year. As drought is expected to increase worldwide, understanding local-scale plant–pollinator interactions may highlight which species will be critical in times of lower precipitation.