Discussion
We show, for the first time, that the sampling method significantly affects how interaction dissimilarity across space is characterized in a heterogeneous tropical landscape. This finding is likely caused by differences in the mobility of organisms embedded in the ecological web, since across all analyses animals showed lower dissimilarity than plants. Importantly, some differences between methods may be linked to plant’s floral traits, especially the type of flowers and the pollination systems of plant species. These outcomes have important consequences on how plant-pollinator networks are described and that organism groups are affected differently by the complementary sampling methods.