Isolation limits spring pollination in a UK fragmented landscape.

ABSTRACT: Animal-mediated pollination determines the reproductive success of most flowering plants; this process however can be disrupted by environmental degradation, with habitat loss and fragmentation highlighted as a top driver of pollination deficits. Despite being a pervasive stressor worldwide, we still have rather limited empirical evidence on its effects on pollination services, especially for early spring pollination syndromes. We investigate this using a potted plant phytometry experiment in which we placed English Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta)-a species largely pollinated in spring-into a fragmented woodland habitat. We selected 51 woodland patches which varied in both size and distance from each other and placed 153 pots of bluebell plants in the patches for c.4 weeks to measure

SUBMITTER: Li D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11412521 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature