Breeding system, pollinator choice and variation in pollen quality in British herbaceous plants

By Mick E. Hanley, M. Franco, S. Pichon, Ben Darvill, Dave Goulson. 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science

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Food in a row: urban trees offer valuable floral resources to pollinating insects (2016, background): “Furthermore, because urban trees provide pollen with a balanced amino acid content, they are likely to be attractive to pollen-collecting insects (Hanley et al. 2008; Weiner et al. 2010; Somme et al. 2015).”
Floral abundance and resource quality influence pollinator choice (2016, background): “…and Diversity, 9, 481–494 Previously, R. fruticosus and S. officinale were included in studies of pollen protein quality and its effects on bee foraging preferences (Hanley et al., 2008), but to the best of our knowledge, the other test plant species have not been studied in this context.”
Pollen and nectar quality drive the major and minor floral choices of bumble bees (2014, background): “Studies have reported bumble bees to forage preferentially on pollen with high protein content (Hanley et al. 2008; Leonhardt and Blüthgen 2012; Robertson et al. 1999), although amino acid composition could better determine the pollen required by bees (Cook et al.”
Foraging behaviour and preference of pollen sources by honey bee (Apis mellifera) relative to protein contents (2020, background): “In contrast, bumblebees show a preference for a higher protein containing pollen (Kitaoke and Nieh, 2009; Leonhardt and Blüthgen 2012) and in fact, a higher quality of protein (Robertson et al., 1999; Hanley et al., 2008).”
Pollen nutrients better explain bumblebee colony development than pollen diversity (2017, background): “They preferentially forage on species providing pollen with higher protein and essential amino acid content (Hanley et al., 2008; Leonhardt & Bl€ uthgen, 2012; Ruedenauer et al., 2015; Somme et al., 2015; Kriesell et al., 2016) and with a precise range of protein/lipid ratio (Vaudo et al.”
The same, but different: pollen foraging in honeybee and bumblebee colonies (2011, background): “They may hence be more prone to suffer from human-induced decline in resource abundance and diversity if human impact disproportionally decreased the abundance of plants with high-quality pollen (e.g., Fabaceae: Goulson et al. 2005) and increased the abundance of plants with pollen of lower quality ”
Sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia): a beneficial forage legume (2011, background): “Onobrychis along with many other members of the Fabaceae is considered to be an obligate insect-pollinated species (Hanley et al., 2008).”
Atmospheric nitrogen deposition in terrestrial ecosystems: Its impact on plant communities and consequences across trophic levels (2018, background): “Plants that are 2 primarily pollinated by bumblebees, such as many Fabaceae, are furthermore shown to have highly 3 nutritious pollen (Hanley et al. 2008).”
Organic dairy farming: impacts on insect–flower interaction networks and pollination (2011, unknown): “flowers were not as abundant as other species, but attracted the highest proportion of insect visits, possibly because its pollen contains high percentages of essential amino acids and protein (Hanley et al. 2008), and large volumes of nectar are produced (Gyan &Woodell 1987b) in open flowers that a”
Flower-strip agri-environment schemes provide diverse and valuable summer flower resources for pollinating insects (2018, background): “However, this family provides poor-quality and low-attractive pollen, that does not provide all the requisite essential amino acids, leading to poor larvae development for numerous insect species (Goulson et al. 2005; Hanley et al. 2008; Forcone et al. 2011; Nicolson and Human 2013; Somme et al. 201”
Assessment of pollen rewards by foraging bees (2017, background): “Many are correlational, relating bees’ foraging preferences in the field to the levels of a particular nutrient(s) found in the pollen provided by different plant species (Robertson et al. 1999; Hanley et al. 2008; Leonhardt & Bl€ uthgen 2012; Somme et al. 2015).”
Bee Food: The Chemistry and Nutritional Value of Nectar, Pollen and Mixtures of the Two (2011, background): “Some researchers have washed bee-collected pollens to remove the sugars and enable comparison with hand-collected pollens (Müller et al. 2006, Hanley et al. 2008); this method is suitable for counting pollen grains but not for chemical analyses, because it risks the loss of other components and has…”