Climate influence on plant-pollinator interactions in the keystone species Vaccinium myrtillus.

ABSTRACT: Climate change is altering the world's ecosystems through direct effects of climate warming and precipitation changes but also indirectly through changes in biotic interactions. For instance, climate-driven changes in plant and/or insect communities may alter plant-pollinator interactions, thereby influencing plant reproductive success and ultimately population dynamics of insect-pollinated plants. To better understand how the importance of insect pollination for plant fruit set varies with climate, we experimentally excluded pollinators from the partly selfing keystone species Vaccinium myrtillus along elevational gradients in the forest-tundra ecotone in central Norway. The study comprised three mountain areas, seven elevational gradients spanning from the climatically relatively

SUBMITTER: Olsen SL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9126989 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature