Plants other than animal-pollinated herbs provide wild bees with vital nutrients

Global Ecology and Conservation, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 52, С. e02984 - e02984

Опубликована: Май 10, 2024

Adult pollinators that forage primarily for energy have traditionally guided our understanding of plant–pollinator interactions, leading to assumptions about the importance different plants pollinators. Consequently, pollinator conservation strategies potentially overlook balance juvenile diets. I studied a representative bee, Osmia bicornis, explore contributions various nutritional quality diet. Using ecological stoichiometry and micronutrient ecology, investigated proportions vital body-building chemical elements (C, N, P, S, K, Na, Ca, Mg, Fe, Zn, Mn Cu; henceforth "nutrients") in larval pollen loads. considered botanical origin, location sexual dimorphism niche as factors influencing nutrient Redundancy analysis indicated main factor determining proportion was which accounted 70.17% variation; contributed 20.21%, sex 8.43%. Among 30 taxa composing loads, determinants content were oak, maple, chestnut, cabbage family, buttercup, grasses. Trees wind-pollinated provided important nutrients. Oak maple contributors nutrients essential growth body development (N, Cu, Zn). Grasses buttercups is bees. Complex habitat management schemes extending beyond traditional seed mixes are conservation, non-obvious plant species provide should be included efforts create complex landscape enabling balanced

Язык: Английский

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Review on Applied Applications of Microbiome on Human Lives

Bacteria, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 3(3), С. 141 - 159

Опубликована: Июль 10, 2024

It is imperative to say that we are immersed in a sea of microorganisms due their ubiquitous presence on the planet, from soil water and air. Human bodies harbor vast array both inside out called human microbiome. composed single-celled organisms, including archaea, fungi, viruses, bacteria, bacteriophages, where bacteria biggest players, this collectively referred as These organisms have symbiotic relationship with humans impact physiology they colonize various sites body, adapting specific features each niche. However, dysbiosis, or deviation normal microbial composition, associated adverse health effects, disrupted ecosystems, eco-imbalance nature. In review, delve into comprehensive oversight cosmopolitan presence, additional applications affecting lives.

Язык: Английский

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Uncovering the significance of the ratio of food K:Na in bee ecology and evolution

Ecology, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 104(8)

Опубликована: Май 26, 2023

Abstract Bees provide important ecological services, and many species are threatened globally, yet our knowledge of wild bee ecology evolution is limited. While evolving from carnivorous ancestors, bees had to develop strategies for coping with limitations imposed on them by a plant‐based diet, nectar providing energy essential amino acids pollen as an extraordinary, protein‐ lipid‐rich food nutritionally similar animal tissues. Both display one characteristic common plants, high ratio potassium sodium (K:Na), potentially leading underdevelopment, health problems, death. We discuss why how the K:Na contributes considering this factor in future studies will new knowledge, more accurately depicting relationship their environments. Such understanding plants function interact needed effectively protect bees.

Язык: Английский

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Detritivores maintain stoichiometric homeostasis, but alter body size and population density in response to altitude induced stoichiometric mismatches

Geoderma, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 446, С. 116897 - 116897

Опубликована: Апрель 27, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Sodium‐enriched nectar shapes plant–pollinator interactions in a subalpine meadow

Ecology and Evolution, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 14(7)

Опубликована: Июль 1, 2024

Many plants have evolved nutrient rewards to attract pollinators flowers, but most research has focused on the sugar content of floral nectar resources. Concentrations sodium in (a micronutrient low concentrations nectar) can vary substantially both among and within co-occurring species. It is hypothesized that might play an important underappreciated role plant-pollinator interactions, especially because many animals, including pollinators, are limited nature. Yet, consequences variation remain largely unexplored. Here, we investigate whether enriching with influences composition, diversity, frequency interactions. We experimentally enriched four plant species a subalpine meadow Colorado, USA. found flowers sodium-enriched received more visits from greater diversity throughout season. Different pollinator foraged frequently showed evidence other changes foraging behavior, dietary evenness. These findings consistent "salty hypothesis," providing for importance limitation suggesting even small constituents shape

Язык: Английский

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What Are the Phylogenetic Limits to Pollinator Diversity?

Journal of Applied Entomology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Окт. 8, 2024

ABSTRACT Although huge progress has been made over the past 200 years in identifying diversity of pollinators angiosperms and other plants, new discoveries continue to be each year, especially tropical areas fossil record. In this perspective article I address following questions: Just how diverse are what phylogenetic limits that diversity? Which groups animals, not currently known regularly engage with flowers, might found future? Can we predict, from record under‐researched parts world, which animal turn out future contain pollinators? also discuss why adding our knowledge plant–pollinator interactions is important, but stress an incomplete may a bad thing if it means remote, inaccessible relatively pristine world remain way.

Язык: Английский

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Review: Nutritional Needs of Honeybees and Legislation on Apiculture By-Products in Animal Nutrition

Animals, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 14(15), С. 2208 - 2208

Опубликована: Июль 30, 2024

Honeybees are some of the smallest farmed animals, and apiculture by-products, e.g., honey, beeswax, propolis, royal jelly, pollen contribute to animal nutrition. For effective production these optimal development nutrient supply honeybee is required. Beginning with mouth anal pores on second day embryonic development, digestive tract differentiates into fore-, mid-, hindgut during pupal stage. The various glands within oral cavity particularly important, secreting enzymes substances that crucial for digestion hive nutrition, invertase jelly. rely a specialized caste system, worker bees collecting nectar, pollen, water, resin nutrition entire hive. Macronutrients, including proteins, carbohydrates, lipids, obtained primarily from essential growth larvae overall health colony. Inadequate intake can lead detrimental effects larval prompting cannibalism Apiculture by-products possess unique nutritional therapeutic properties, leading growing interest in use as feed additive. In recent years, apicultural has been limited vivo studies, which have demonstrated positive impacts performance farm animals. Honey, listed stuffs according Regulation (EC) No. 68/2013. However, there not any specific legal definition products no requirements regarding their ingredients given honey or beeswax European food law.

Язык: Английский

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Elevated atmospheric CO2 alters the multi-element stoichiometry of pollen-bearing oak flowers, with possible negative effects on bees

Oecologia, Год журнала: 2024, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Сен. 8, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Landscape heterogeneity correlates with bee and pollen diversity while size and specialization degree explain species-specific responses of wild bees to the environment

The Science of The Total Environment, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 954, С. 176595 - 176595

Опубликована: Сен. 30, 2024

Язык: Английский

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Life Cycle Variation and Host–Parasite Interactions of Four Congeneric Species of Turtle Acanthocephalans

Journal of Parasitology, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 110(6)

Опубликована: Ноя. 13, 2024

Turtle acanthocephalans in the genus Neoechinorhynchus have complex life cycles and are thought to involve an ostracod intermediate host a turtle definitive host. For emydis, additional snail paratenic is part of its cycle. However, how snails become infected whether other species can be found remains unclear. This study was conducted understand survival, development, use 4 (Neoechinorhynchus chrysemydis, N. emyditoides, pseudemydis) their intermediate, paratenic, hosts. Using eggs recovered from adult naturally hosts Oklahoma, experimental infections were 2 ostracods 1 freshwater snail. Ionomes also generated for these better resource competition. Upon ingestion by ostracods, all hatched both species. no further acanthocephalan development occurred Cypridopsis sp. whereas grew developed into infective juveniles over 28-32 days Physocypria ostracods. Of acanthocephalans, emydis faster early only survive establish finding supported observation proboscis remnants feces that ingested with pseudemydis. In contrast, when exposed species, passed feces, resulting infections. The overall ionomic composition suggested parasites share resources. specific elemental differences indicated accumulate heavy metals at concentrations higher than those Results this support previous field observations hypotheses (1) serve as pseudemydis; (2) uses hosts, but non-viable route transmission turtles (3) adults, utilize similarly terms composition. work challenges traditional view cycle sets stage future hypotheses.

Язык: Английский

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