Global-scale drivers of crop visitor diversity and the historical development of agriculture.

ABSTRACT: Understanding diversity in flower-visitor assemblages helps us improve pollination of crops and support better biodiversity conservation outcomes. Much recent research has focused on drivers of crop-visitor diversity operating over spatial scales from fields to landscapes, such as pesticide and habitat management, while drivers operating over larger scales of continents and biogeographic realms are virtually unknown. Flower and visitor traits influence attraction of pollinators to flowers, and evolve in the context of associations that can be ancient or recent. Plants that have been adopted into agriculture have been moved widely around the world and thereby exposed to new flower visitors. Remarkably little is known of the consequence of these historical patterns for present-day crop-visit

SUBMITTER: Brown J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6892048 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature