Effects of temporal floral resource availability and non-crop habitats on broad bean pollination.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Flowering plants can enhance wild insect populations and their pollination services to crops in agricultural landscapes, especially when they flower before the focal crop. However, characterizing the temporal availability of specific floral resources is a challenge.

Objectives

Developing an index for the availability of floral resources at the landscape scale according to the specific use by a pollinator. Investigating whether detailed and temporally-resolved floral resource maps predict pollination success of broad bean better than land cover maps.

Methods

We mapped plant species used as pollen source by bumblebees in 24 agricultural landscapes and developed an index of floral resource availability for different times of the flowering season. To measure polli

SUBMITTER: Eckerter PW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9122849 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature