Abstract
COVER PHOTO: Aster souliei, a flowering “magnet species” from the alpine meadows of the Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau, China, is pictured on the cover. Flowering‐dominant and unusually attractive magnet species with disproportionate contributions to pollination may play key roles in reproductive interactions among plants in the harsh environment of alpine meadows. Bi et al. (Ecology, Volume 105, Issue 12, Article e4455; doi:10.1002/ecy.4455) experimentally removed either flowering‐dominant or magnet species and quantified the mechanisms by which the two species promote the reproductive success of the other species. Their results suggest that the presence of a magnet species, which interacts with a wider range of pollinator species than the local dominant species, increases pollinator visitation and reproductive fitness of most other species. Photo credit: Cheng Bi. image
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