bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.21.436328; this version posted March 22, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under aCC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. 1 The effects of experimental floral resource removal on plant-pollinator interactions 2 3 Authors: Justin A. Bain1,2,3, Rachel G. Dickson3,4, Andrea M. Gruver1,2, Paul J. CaraDonna1,2,3 4 1Negaunee Institute for Plant Conservation Science and Action, Chicago Botanic Garden, 5 Glencoe, IL, USA 6 2Plant Biology and Conservation, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA 7 3Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Crested Butte, CO, USA 8 4 Division of Biological Sciences, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA 9 10 Author for correspondence: Justin Bain,
[email protected] 11 12 Author contributions. PJC conceived the project; JAB, RGD, and PJC designed the project and 13 conducted the experiment; JAB, RGD, and PJC collected the data; All authors analyzed the data 14 and interpreted results. JAB wrote the initial draft of the manuscript, and all authors contributed 15 to revisions. JAB and RGD contributed equally to this manuscript. 16 17 Data accessibility. Upon acceptance of this manuscript, all relevant data and code will be 18 archived via the online digital repository Environmental Data Initiative (EDI). 19 1 bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.03.21.436328; this version posted March 22, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity.