Modelling the effects of the repellent scent marks of pollinators on their foraging efficiency and the plant-pollinator community.

ABSTRACT: Pollinator insects forage in complex and unpredictable resource landscapes, often using social information from congeneric individuals to acquire knowledge about their environment. It has long been recognized that this process allows them to exploit floral resources more efficiently and thus increase individual fitness. However, by creating correlations between the behaviors of pollinators within a population, this could also indirectly influence the entire plant-pollinator community. One type of social information used by pollinators is the scent mark left on the corolla of flowers by previous visitors, which can be used as a cue to avoid recently depleted resources. We developed a spatially explicit agent-based model to examine the effects, at both individual and community levels, of pol

SUBMITTER: Verrier E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8425561 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature