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| A seemingly idyllic setting |
The fertile Renosterveld
of the Overberg has undergone radical transformation in the past few centuries
as European settlers expanded from Cape Town in search of land more suitable
for agriculture. Today, only pockets of critically endangered natural
vegetation exist within an agricultural landscape. Despite the important
ecosystem service pollination provides, little work has been done on studying
it, particularly at the community level.
In our study, over 240 hours of field
observations and subsequent species identification provided a highly-resolved
snapshot of three plant-pollinator networks falling along a gradient of
secondary succession.