Effective pollination is a complex, context-dependent phenomenon determined by both species-level and community-level factors. While pollinator communities are constituted by interacting organisms in a shared environment, these factors are often simplified or overlooked when quantifying species-level pollinator effectiveness alone. Here, we review the recent literature on pollinator effectiveness to identify the pros and cons of existing methods and outline three important areas for future research: plant-pollinator interactions, heterospecific pollen transfer and variation in pollination outcomes. We conclude that pollinator community effectiveness needs to be acknowledged as a key property of pollination effectiveness in order to fully account for the suite of plant, pollinator and environmental factors known to influence different stages of successful pollination.

有效授粉是一种复杂的，与环境有关的现象，由物种级和社区级因素决定。虽然传粉媒介群落是由共享环境中的相互作用生物组成的，但是当仅量化物种一级的传粉媒介有效性时，这些因素通常会被简化或忽略。在这里，我们回顾了有关传粉媒介有效性的最新文献，以确定了现有方法的利弊，并概述了未来研究的三个重要领域：植物-传粉媒介相互作用，异种花粉转移和授粉结果的变化。我们得出的结论是，为了充分考虑整套植物，传粉媒介社区的有效性需要被视为传粉有效性的关键属性，