Diel-scale temporal dynamics in the abundance and composition of pollinators in the Arctic summer.

ABSTRACT: Our understanding of how pollinator activity varies over short temporal scales is limited because most research on pollination is based on data collected during the day that is then aggregated at a larger temporal scale. To understand how environmental factors affect plant-pollinator interactions, it is critical that studies include the entire diel cycle to examine patterns and processes that cause temporal variations. Further, there is little information from the Arctic, where environmental conditions that influence pollinator activity (e.g. temperature and solar radiation), are less variable across the diel cycle during the summer compared to locations from lower latitudes. We quantified abundance, composition and foraging activity of a pollinator community in Finnish Lapland at a diel s

SUBMITTER: Zoller L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7713049 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature