Functional complementarity and specialisation: The role of biodiversity in plant–pollinator interactions

By N. Blüthgen, Alexandra-Maria Klein. 2011

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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From research to action: Enhancing crop yield through wild pollinators (2014, background): “…in species functional traits, greater pollinator richness can lead to foraging complementarity or synergy, improving the quantity and quality of pollination (Blüthgen and Klein 2011) and therefore increasing both the proportion of flowers setting fruits (or seeds) and product quality (eg…”
Natural land cover drives pollinator abundance and richness, leading to reductions in pollen limitation in cotton agroecosystems (2016, background): “Depending on weather and planting, cotton bloom time can range substantially in the southern, often between April and July (National Cotton Council of America, 2014); given that many bee species only forage for a few weeks at a time (Michener, 2007), pollinator diversity may be particularly importan”
Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance (2013, methodology): “In 2009 and 2010, we revisited the area studied by Robertson and re-collected data on the phenologies and structure of a subset of this network—26 spring-blooming forest understory forbs and their 109 pollinating bees (15).”
Pollination efficiency and foraging behaviour of honey bees and non‐Apis bees to sweet cherry (2019, background): “Because bumble bees are large bees, this might create a morphological mismatch between pollinator and flower (but see Blüthgen & Klein, 2011; Garibaldi et al., 2015).”
Economic gain, stability of pollination and bee diversity decrease from southern to northern Europe (2013, background): “Only a higher diversity of pollinaors may hence render the overall service stable enough to vercome seasonal or stochastic fluctuations in populations f single pollinator species (Blüthgen & Klein 2011; Klein 011).”
Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination (2015, unknown): “Diverse pollinator assemblages have been shown to increase pollination services as a result of complementary resource use arising from variations in morphology and behavior among pollinator taxa (29, 30).”
Stability of pollination services decreases with isolation from natural areas despite honey bee visits. (2011, background): “Several mechanisms have been proposed to explain why richer pollinator communities might have enhanced function or stability, including species response diversity, functional redundancy, functional complementarity and sampling effects (Tscharntke et al. 2005; Hoehn et al. 2008; Winfree & Kremen 2009”