Temporal changes in the Swiss flora: implications for flower-visiting insects.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Local floristic diversity has massively decreased during the twentieth century in Central Europe even though in the 1990s diversity began increasing again in several regions. However, little is known whether this increase is equally distributed among plant groups with different reproductive traits.

Methods

Our study is based on data of the Swiss Biodiversity Monitoring Program. In this program, plant species occurrence is recorded since 2001 in 450 regularly distributed 1 km² study sites. For all 1774 plant species registered in the study, we researched data on flower/pseudanthium type and colour, reproductive system, and groups of flower visitors. We then tested whether temporal changes in species frequency were equally distributed among species with d

SUBMITTER: Abrahamczyk S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9479241 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature