Effects of landscape complexity on pollinators are moderated by pollinators' association with mass-flowering crops.

ABSTRACT: Conserving and restoring semi-natural habitat, i.e. enhancing landscape complexity, is one of the main strategies to mitigate pollinator decline in agricultural landscapes. However, we still have limited understanding of how landscape complexity shapes pollinator communities in both crop and non-crop habitat, and whether pollinator responses to landscape complexity vary with their association with mass-flowering crops. Here, we surveyed pollinator communities on mass-flowering leek crops and in nearby semi-natural habitat in landscapes of varying complexity. Surveys were done before and during crop bloom and distinguished between pollinators that visit the crop frequently (dominant), occasionally (opportunistic), or not at all (non-crop). Forty-seven per cent of the species in the wider la

SUBMITTER: Fijen TPM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6501670 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature