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This work has been submitted to NECTAR, the Northampton Electronic Collection of Theses and Research. Article Title: The integration of alien plants in mutualistic plant–hummingbird networks across the Americas: the importance of species traits and insularity Creators: Maruyama, P. K., VizentinBugoni, J., Sonne, J., Martın Gonzalez, A. M., Schleuning, M., Araujo, A. C., Baquero, A. C., Cardona, J., CardonaR, P., Cotton, P. A., Kohler, G., Lara, C., Malucelli, T., MarınGomez, O. H., Ollerton, J., Rui, A. M., Timmermann, A., Varassin, I. G., Zanata, T. B., Rahbek, AC., Sazima, M. and Dalsgaard, B. T DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12434 Example citation: Maruyama, P. K.,C VizentinBugoni, J., Sonne, J., Martın Gonzalez, A. M., Schleuning, M., Araujo, A. C., Baquero, A. C., Cardona, J., Cardona, P., Cotton, P. A., Kohler, G., Lara, C., Malucelli, T., MarınGomez, O. H., Ollerton, J., Rui, A. M., Timmermann, A., VarassinE, I. G., Zanata, T. B., Rahbek, C., Sazima, M. and Dalsgaard, B. (2016) The integration of alien plants in mutualistic plant–hummingbird networks across the Americas: the importance of species traits and insularity. Diversity and Distributions. 22N(6), pp. 672681. 14724642. It is advisable to refer to the publisher's version if you intend to cite from this work. Version: Accepted version Official URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ddi.12434/pdf Note: This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Maruyama et al. (2016) The integration of alien plants in mutualistic plant–hummingbird networks across the Americas: the importance of species traits and insularity. Diversity and Distributions. 22(6), pp. 672681. 14724642., which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ddi.12434. This article may be used for noncommercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for SelfArchiving. http://nectar.northampton.ac.uk/8329/ Diversity and Distributions Page 2 of 63 1 2 3 4 1 Biodiversity Research 5 6 7 2 Running header: Alien plants in plant-hummingbird networks 8 9 10 3 11 12 13 4 The integration of alien plants in plant-hummingbird pollination networks across 14 15 5 the Americas : the importance of species traits and insularity 16 17 18 6 For Review Only 19 20 21 7 Pietro K. Maruyama 1,2,3 , Jeferson Vizentin-Bugoni 1,2 , Jesper Sonne 2, Ana M. 22 23 8 Martín González 2,4, Matthias Schleuning 5, Andréa C. Araujo 6, Andrea C. 24 25 2 7 7 8 9 26 9 Baquero , Juliana Cardona , Paola Cardona , Peter A. Cotton , Glauco Kohler , 27 10 11 12,13 14 28 10 Carlos Lara , Tiago Malucelli , Oscar Humberto Marín , Jeff Ollerton , Ana 29 30 11 M. Rui 15, Allan Timmermann 16, Isabela G. Varassin 11, Thais B. Zanata 2,11, Carsten 31 32 12 Rahbek 2,17, Marlies Sazima 13, Bo Dalsgaard 2 33 34 35 13 1. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas 36 37 14 (Unicamp), Cx. Postal 6109, CEP: 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brasil 38 39 15 2. Center for Macroecology, Evolution and Climate, Natural History Museum of 40 16 Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, 41 17 Denmark 42 43 18 3. Departamento de Biologia Vegetal, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de 44 45 19 Campinas (Unicamp), Cx. Postal 6109, CEP: 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brasil 46 47 20 4. Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab, 1604 McGee Ave, 94703 48 21 Berkeley, California, USA 49 50 22 5. Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Senckenberganlage 51 23 25, 60325 Frankfurt (Main), Germany 52 53 24 6. Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do 54 55 25 Sul, 79070-900, Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil 56 57 58 59 60 Diversity and Distributions Page 3 of 63 Diversity and Distributions 1 2 3 26 7. Grupo de Biodiversidad y Educación Ambiental (BIOEDUQ). Programa de 4 27 Licenciatura en Biología y Educación Ambiental. Universidad del Quindío. A.A. 460. 5 28 Armenia, Quindío, Colombia 6 7 8 29 8. Marine Biology & Ecology Research Centre, Plymouth University, Plymouth PL4 9 30 8AA, UK 10 11 31 9. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Av. André Araújo 2936, Petrópolis, 12 32 CEP 69080-971, Manaus, Amazonas, Brasil 13 14 33 10. Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Biológicas, Universidad Autónoma de 15 16 34 Tlaxcala. Km 10.5 Autopista Tlaxcala-San Martín Texmelucan, San Felipe Ixtacuixtla, 17 35 90120, Tlaxcala, México 18 For Review Only 19 36 11. Laboratório de Ecologia Vegetal, Departamento de Botânica, Universidade Federal 20 37 do Paraná, 81531-980 Curitiba, Paraná, Brasil 21 22 38 12. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, 23 24 39 Colombia 25 26 40 13. Departamento de Biología Evolutiva, Instituto de Ecología, A.C., Carretera Antigua 27 41 a Coatepec 351, El Haya, Xalapa, Veracruz 91070, México 28 29 42 14. Environmental Research Group, School of Science and Technology, University of 30 43 Northampton, Avenue Campus, Northampton, NN2 6JD, UK 31 32 44 15. Departamento de Ecologia, Zoologia e Genética, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade 33 34 45 Federal de Pelotas, Capão do Leão, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil 35 36 46 16. Section for Ecoinformatics and Biodiversity, Department of Bioscience, Aarhus 37 47 University, Ny Munkegade 114, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark 38 39 48 17. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, 40 49 Ascot SL5 7PY, UK 41 42 50 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 Diversity and Distributions Diversity and Distributions Page 4 of 63 1 2 3 4 51 ABSTRACT 5 6 7 52 Aim To investigate the role of alien plants in mutualistic plant-hummingbird networks, 8 9 53 assessing the importance of species traits, floral abundances and insularity on alien plant 10 11 54 integration. 12 13 14 55 Location Mainland and insular Americas. 15 16 17 56 Methods We used species-level network indices to assess the role of alien plants in 21 18 For Review Only 19 57 quantitative plant-hummingbird networks where alien plants occur. We then evaluated 20 21 22 58 whether plant traits, including previous adaptations to bird-pollination, and insularity 23 24 59 predict these network indices. Additionally, for a subset of networks for which floral 25 26 60 abundance data was available, we tested whether this relate to network indices. Finally, 27 28 61 we tested the association between hummingbird traits and the probability of interaction 29 30 31 62 with alien plants across the networks. 32 33 34 63 Results Within the 21 networks, we identified 32 alien plant species and 352 native 35 36 64 plant species. On average, alien plant species attracted more hummingbird species (i.e. 37 38 65 aliens had a higher degree) and had a higher proportion of interactions across their 39 40 66 hummingbird visitors than native plants (i.e. aliens had a higher species strength). At 41 42 the same time, an average alien plant was visited more exclusively by certain 43 67 44 45 68 hummingbird species (i.e. had a higher level of complementary specialization) . Large 46 47 69 alien plants and those occurring on islands distributed more evenly their interactions, 48 49 70 thereby acting as connectors. Other evaluated plant traits and floral abundance were 50 51 71 unimportant predictors of species-level indices. Short-billed hummingbirds had higher 52 53 54 72 probability of including alien plants in their interactions than long-billed species. 55 56 57 58 59 60 Diversity and Distributions Page 5 of 63 Diversity and Distributions 1 2 3 73 Main conclusions Alien plants appear strongly integrated once incorporated into plant- 4 5 74 hummingbird networks, and thus may have a large influence on network dynamics. 6 7 75 Plant traits and floral abundance were generally poor predictors of how well alien 8 9 10 76 species are integrated. Short-billed hummingbirds, often characterized as functionally 11 12 77 generalized pollinators, facilitate the integration of alien plants. Our results show that 13 14 78 plant-hummingbird networks are open for invasion. 15 16 17 79 18 For Review Only 19 20 80 Key-words 21 22 23 81 Abundance, exotic plants, generalization, invasion biology, network roles, ornithophily, 24 25 82 specialization 26 27 28 83 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 Diversity and Distributions Diversity and Distributions Page 6 of 63 1 2 3 4 84 INTRODUCTION 5 6 7 85 Alien species may become invasive and are a major threat to biodiversity and ecosystem 8 9 86 functioning, including key ecosystem services such as pollination (Colautti & MacIssac 10 11 87 2004, Gurevitch & Padilla 2004, Pyšek et al. 2004, Morales & Traveset 2009, 12 13 88 Simberloff et al. 2013). The successful establishment of alien plant species might be 14 15 16 89 contingent on the acquisition of mutualistic partners, e.g. pollinators, outside their 17 18 90 native range (RichardsonFor et Reviewal. 2000, Bufford & Dae Onlyhler 2014, Traveset & Richardson 19 20 91 2014). Under such a scenario, alien plants may compete for pollinators and decrease the 21 22 92 fitness of native plants, for instance by offering greater quantities of floral rewards and 23 24 25 93 thereby decreasing the attractiveness of native flowers (Chittka & Schürkens 2001, 26 27 94 Morales & Traveset 2009). Conversely, alien plants could also benefit native plants by 28 29 95 increasing the overall availability of floral resources, thereby increasing pollinator 30 31 96 abundance and activity on native plants (Bjerknes et al.