‘The sudden collapse of pollinator communities’, published in Ecology Letters
Previous work has suggested that the nested structure of mutualistically interacting plant and pollinator species promotes indirect facilitation among pollinator species (Bastolla et al. 2009). Such indirect facilitation may allow pollinator communities to persist under increasingly difficult circumstances. When pollinators continue to facilitate each other under increasingly harsh conditions they may, however, also collapse simultaneously because they depend on each other for survival, as was recently described in Lever et al. (2014), and highlighted in Tylianakis & Coux (2014) and on phys.org.