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Plant-Pollinator Coextinctions and the Loss of Plant Functional and Phylogenetic Diversity Plant-pollinator coextinctions are likely to become more frequent as habitat alteration and climate change continue to threaten pollinators. The consequences of the resulting collapse of plant communities...

First Evidence for a Massive Extinction Event Affecting Bees Close to the K-T Boundary Bees and eudicot plants both arose in the mid-late Cretaceous, and their co-evolutionary relationships have often been assumed as an important element in the rise of flowering plants. Given the near-complete...