Diverse flower-visiting responses among pollinators to multiple weather variables in buckwheat pollination.

ABSTRACT: Response diversity to environmental change among species is important for the maintenance of ecosystem services, but response diversity to changes in multiple environmental parameters is largely unexplored. Here, we examined how insect visitations to buckwheat flowers differ among species groups in response to changes in multiple weather variables and landscape structures. We found differences in responses to changes in weather conditions among insect taxonomic groups visiting buckwheat flowers. Beetles, butterflies, and wasps were more active in sunny and/or high-temperature conditions, whereas ants and non-syrphid flies showed the opposite pattern. When looking closely, the different response pattern among insect groups was itself shown to be different from one weather variable to anothe

SUBMITTER: Miyashita T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9946946 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature