Pollinator Extinction in the Pacific Islands

By P. Cox, T. Elmqvist. 2000

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation

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Evidence for decline in eastern North American bumblebees (Hymenoptera: Apidae), with special focus on Bombus affinis Cresson (2008, background): “The decline of pollinators has become a global issue of concern in recent decades (Buchmann and Nabhan 1996; Allen-Wardell et al. 1998; Kearns et al. 1998; Cox and Elmqvist 2000; Steffan-Dewenter et al. 2005; Biesmeijer et al. 2006).”
Prospects for tropical forest biodiversity in a human-modified world. (2009, background): “Island systems may be more prone to the cascading effects of species loss on mutualistic interactions (e.g. pollination) than mainland tropical forests due to lower levels of functional redundancy (Cox & Elmqvist 2000).”
Trees, birds and bees in Mauritius: exploitative competition between introduced honey bees and endemic nectarivorous birds? (2002, background): “Island species are especially extinction-prone and vulnerable to disturbance, mainly because of inherently small population sizes and isolated evolution (Cox & Elmqvist, 2000; Simberloff, 2000).”
Mobile Link Organisms and Ecosystem Functioning: Implications for Ecosystem Resilience and Management (2003, background): “In this sense, they are important factors in determining the direction of ecosystem development after disturbance (Cox and Elmqvist 2000; Nyström and Folke 2001).”
Impacts of global climate change on the floras of oceanic islands – Projections, implications and current knowledge (2015, background): “Several examples are documented where extinctions of single bird species induced co-extinctions of a number of endemic plant taxa on oceanic islands due to lost mutualism (e.g. Cox and Elmqvist, 2001; Fall, 2005; Kingston and Waldren, 2005).”
Conservation of oceanic island floras: present and future global challenges. (2010, background): “…evidence that island plants suffer from the extinction or decline of seed dispersers (e.g. Hansen and Galetti, 2009; Hansen et al., 2008; Whittaker and Fernández-Palacios, 2007; McConkey and Drake, 2006; Cox et al., 1991), and pollinators (e.g. Mortensen et al., 2008; Cox and Elmqvist, 2000).”
Conservation and restoration of plant–animal mutualisms on oceanic islands (2010, background): “For example, Cox and Elmqvist (2000) reviewed the loss of pollinator species on Pacific Ocean Islands, and found that such losses can reduce plant reproductive success (e.g. Jennersten, 1988), or result in a complete breakdown of breeding systems (e.g. Washitani, 1996).”
Are the ecological impacts of alien species misrepresented? A review of the “native good, alien bad” philosophy (2010, background): “…148 jocosus) is now the sole pollinator of the rare Mauritian endemic plant Nesocodon mauritianus (Olesen et al. 2002), while the native Hawaiian ie’ie vine (Freycinetia arborea) relies almost exclusively on pollination by Japanese white-eyes (Zosterops japonicus) (Cox and Elmqvist 2000).”
Biological invasions as disruptors of plant reproductive mutualisms. (2006, background): “This has been found in fragmented landscapes [23,29] and in several oceanic islands: for example, in Hawaii, the vine Freycinetia arborea (originally pollinated by now-extinct bird species) survives thanks to the Japanese silvereye Zosterops japonica [ 11 ]; in Mauritius, the introduced red-whiskere”
Economic and ecological implications of geographic bias in pollinator ecology in the light of pollinator declines (2014, background): “Pollinators are therefore vital to preserving high agricultural productivity (Klein et al. 2007) and ecosystem function (Cox and Elmqvist 2000).”