Variation in flower morphology associated with higher bee diversity in urban green spaces DOI Creative Commons

S. Sinno,

Gail MacInnis, J. LESSARD

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Ecological Applications, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: unknown

Published: Nov. 28, 2024

Abstract Urbanization is a leading threat to biodiversity, but scientifically informed management of urban ecosystems can mitigate negative impacts. For wild bees, which are declining worldwide, careful consideration flower choice in public and private green spaces could help preserve their diversity. While floral density species richness both linked bee diversity, the mechanisms underlying these relationships not fully understood. Here, we tested two hypotheses relating influence trait composition richness, have termed within‐trait diversity optimal hypotheses. Specifically, assessed whether variation relates weighted variance (trait diversity) mean (optimal trait) traits observed across city Montreal, Canada. Our analyses focused on pollinator feeding success: nectar sugar concentration corolla length. After accounting for among sites, was positively related community‐weighted length, supporting hypothesis. These findings suggest that practices increase morphologies promote persistence communities cities.

Language: Английский

Analyzing pollen content to assess honey bee (Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758) foraging in an urban area DOI
Jéssica Morais Cunha, Vanessa Ribeiro Matos, Lázaro da Silva Carneiro

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Arthropod-Plant Interactions, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 19(2)

Published: March 29, 2025

Language: Английский

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A macroscopic synthesis and future directions on the study of ecological interaction networks in urban areas DOI

Issaac Azrrael Teodosio Faustino,

Fernando González-García, Michelle Ramos‐Robles

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Urban Ecosystems, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 28(3)

Published: April 3, 2025

Language: Английский

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One for all, all for one? Pollinator groups differ in diversity and specialization of interactions across urban green spaces DOI
Victor Hugo Duarte da Silva, Ingrid N. Gomes, Camila Bosenbecker

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Landscape and Urban Planning, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 259, P. 105361 - 105361

Published: April 6, 2025

Language: Английский

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Contrasting nation-wide citizen science and expert collected data on hummingbird–plant interactions DOI Creative Commons
Camila Bosenbecker, Pedro Amaral Anselmo,

Roberta Zuba Andreoli

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Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 21(2), P. 164 - 171

Published: April 1, 2023

Citizen science has the potential to increase efficiency of scientific data collection. However, such initiatives often focus on unique taxa for each record, not necessarily involving interspecific interactions. Moreover, whether openly available unstructured citizen can contribute better understand ecological patterns is still well understood. Here, we identify hummingbird-plant interactions recorded by amateur birdwatchers in most popular online platform Brazil, Wikiaves. Then, evaluated how this information benefit our understanding a large Tropical country comparing with generated experts. We also constructed nation-wide meta-network structural roles hummingbirds and plants. In total, 3210 were compiled, geographic coverage relation expert data. The interaction network showed modular pattern, some plant species found as frequently interacting here similar those Nevertheless, when partners featured both data, proportion plants common generally low (usually less than 40%), indicating that are mostly recording captured scientists. Finally, other cases compilation sampling intensity (here, number photographs) strong driver records, highlighting challenge separating biologically meaningful from artifacts Our study illustrates richness citizen-gathered biodiversity megadiverse country, which show great complement collected

Language: Английский

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Non-native plants and illegitimate interactions are highly relevant for supporting hummingbird pollinators in the urban environment DOI
Pedro Amaral Anselmo, João Custódio Fernandes Cardoso, Paulo Ricardo Baier Siqueira

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Urban forestry & urban greening, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 86, P. 128025 - 128025

Published: July 9, 2023

Language: Английский

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Urban environments increase generalization of hummingbird–plant networks across climate gradients DOI Creative Commons
Pietro K. Maruyama, Camila Bosenbecker, João Custódio Fernandes Cardoso

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 121(48)

Published: Nov. 11, 2024

Urbanization has reshaped the distribution of biodiversity on Earth, but we are only beginning to understand its effects ecological communities. While urbanization may have homogenization strong enough blur large-scale patterns in interaction networks, urban community still be associated with climate gradients reflecting biogeographical processes. Using 103 hummingbird-plant mutualistic networks across continental Americas, including 176 hummingbird and 1,180 plant species, asked how affects species interactions over large gradients. Urban were more generalized, exhibiting greater overlap. Higher generalization was also lower precipitation both natural areas, indicating that irrespective habitat type. habitats showed functional trait diversity over/underrepresentation specific clades. From side, communities had a higher prevalence nonnative nectar plants, which frequently visited by occurring areas. Therefore, affected through composition traits, as well floral resource availability. Taken together, show consistently modifies their interactions, plays role affecting structure these novel scale continents.

Language: Английский

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Differences in Plant–Pollinator Network Structure and Pollinator Importance Between a Continental and an Oceanic Island Community DOI
Xiangping Wang,

Ma‐Yin Tong,

Yu Zhang

et al.

Biotropica, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 57(2)

Published: March 1, 2025

ABSTRACT Pollination is an important ecological process for plant reproduction. Understanding the differences in plant–pollinator interactions and pollinator importance across spatial scales vital to determine responses of these global changes. Continental oceanic island systems provide us with ideal model examine variation interactions. Here, we compared species composition, network structure, communities between a continental (Wanshan Island) (Yongxing China. The results reveal highly dissimilar composition islands that caused different structures. In particular, networks had higher connectance, nestedness, specialization than networks. For plants cooccurring on both islands, richness flower visitation rate were island. Plant niche overlap was island, while entire subnetwork. Hymenoptera most group community, Apidae community. imply may be less vulnerable disturbance, such as habitat alteration or destruction, implication insights into biodiversity conservation pollinators islands.

Language: Английский

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Bat pollinators: a decade of monitoring reveals declining visitation rates for some species in Thailand DOI Creative Commons
Alyssa B. Stewart,

Supawan Srilopan,

Kanuengnit Wayo

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Zoological Letters, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 10(1)

Published: March 2, 2024

Bats are important pollinators, but they difficult to study since volant and nocturnal. Thus, long-term studies of nectarivorous bats scarce, despite their potential help assess trends in bat populations pollination services. We used capture rates at chiropterophilous flowers order examine temporal visitation an area that is undergoing extensive land use change. mist-netted five bat-pollinated plant taxa (Durio zibethinus, Musa acuminata, Oroxylum indicum, Parkia speciosa, Sonneratia spp.) southern Thailand over six years between 2011 2021. found the most common species, Eonycteris spelaea, was main visitor all had consistent across years. In contrast, two other Macroglossus minimus M. sobrinus, showed 80% declines number individuals netted mangrove apple (Sonneratia banana (Musa acuminata) flowers, respectively. These findings suggest E. spelaea (a large, cave-roosting species with a broad diet) more tolerant anthropogenic change than (small, foliage-roosting specialized diets), which may turn affect reproductive success plants pollinated by these species. Our demonstrates how decade-long monitoring can reveal species-specific patterns pollinator visitation, emphasizing need for tailored conservation plans. While status Least Concern, our results indicate population Southeast Asia urgently needed updated assessments.

Language: Английский

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Consistent generalization of plant-hummingbird networks despite increasing vegetation cover across a tropical urban landscape DOI
Camila Bosenbecker, Pedro Amaral Anselmo,

Teresa Mol Fonseca

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Urban forestry & urban greening, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 101, P. 128498 - 128498

Published: Aug. 28, 2024

Language: Английский

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Structure of a metacommunity of urban bees: Species diversity and spatio-temporal modularity DOI Creative Commons
Yoko L. Dupont, Mette B. Greve, Henning Bang Madsen

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Basic and Applied Ecology, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 77, P. 45 - 56

Published: April 15, 2024

As the globe gets more urbanised, question about how natural biodiversity is structured in cities becomes increasingly pertinent. To contribute to an answer, we studied species richness and spatio-temporal structure of bees a North European metropolitan area. A gradient 13 sites city Aarhus, Denmark, was censused from April September 2016. Forty species, i.e. 29 solitary (40% all individuals), ten Bombus (28%), Apis mellifera (32%), were sampled monthly pan traps. (i) Information traits extracted literature, trait values correlated used characterize fauna. Most soil-nesters, pollen generalists, common. (ii) Habitat diversity within five concentric circles with trap as centre radius 50 m 1000 related bee α site diversity. The relationship significant only 1,000 for bumblebees. Solitary uncorrelated habitat at spatial levels. (iii) Spatio-temporal analysed two networks, one linked sites, months. Link patterns levels nestedness, modularity, β networks weakly non-significantly nested, but strongly modular, being composed four modules co-occurring bees, respectively. (iv) Finally, total diversity, βTOTAL, sum turnover, βTURN, loss/gain or βNEST. For both season, βTURN higher than βNEST, βTOTAL season βTOTAL. One reason this metacommunity may be high patchiness, sustaining rich biodiversity. Thus, few large areas not compensate loss several small patches. Consequently, establishment many green, even habitats recommended.

Language: Английский

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