Diversity and composition of flower-visiting insects and related factors in three fruit tree species.

ABSTRACT: Animal-mediated pollination is an essential ecosystem service for the production of many fruit trees. To reveal the community composition of flower-visiting wild insects which potentially contribute to fruit production and to examine the effects of geographic location, local meteorological conditions and locally introduced domesticated pollinators on them, we investigated the community composition of insects visiting the flowers (hereafter, "visitors") of apple, Japanese pear and Oriental persimmon for 1‒3 years at 20 sites around Japan. While most of the variation (82%) of the community composition was explained by tree species with a slight contribution by geographic distance (2%), maximum temperature and tree species contributed 62% and 41% of the variation in total abundance of the vis

SUBMITTER: Nakamura S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10504601 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature