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Pollinator-flower interactions in gardens during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown of 2020
<p>During the main COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period of 2020 an impromptu set of pollination ecologists came together via social media and personal contacts to carry out standardised surveys of the flower visits and plants in their gardens. The surveys involved 67 rural, suburban and urban gardens, of various sizes, ranging from 61.18<sup>o</sup> North in Norway to 37.96<sup>o</sup> South in Australia and resulted in a data set of 25,174 rows long and comprising almost 47,000 visits to flowers, as well as records of plants that were not visited by pollinators. In this first publication from the project we present a brief description of the data and make it freely available for any researchers to use in the future, the only restriction being that they cite this paper in the first instance. As well as producing a data set that we hope will be widely used in the future, the project helped enormously with the health and mental wellbeing of the participants, a by-product of ecological field work that cannot be over-estimated.</p>
Seasonal trajectories of plant-pollinator interaction networks differ following phenological mismatches along an urbanization gradient - Data and code
<p>Dataset and code used in the article "Seasonal trajectories of plant-pollinator interaction networks differ following phenological mismatches along an urbanization gradient", by A. Fisogni et al., published in Landscape and Urban Planning (2022, 226:104512, <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016920462200161X?via%3Dihub">https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2022.104512</a>)</p>
Warming of experimental plant-pollinator communities advances phenologies, alters traits, reduces interactions, and depresses reproduction
<p>This is the data set supporting the analyses performed in the article entitled "Warming of experimental plant-pollinator communities advances phenologies, alters traits, reduces interactions, and depresses reproduction", by Natasha de Manincor, Alessandro Fisogni, and Nicole E. Rafferty, published in Ecology Letters (2023, 26:323-334, <a href="https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14158">https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.14158</a>).</p> <p>The experiment has been performed in the greenhouse facilities at the University of California, Riverside, in 2021.</p> <p>The two treatments analyzed are ambient vs warmed (+ 4 °C), the focal pollinator species is <em>Osmia lignaria</em>, and the three focal plant species are <em>Collinsia heterophylla</em>, <em>Nemophila menziesii</em>, and <em>Phacelia campanularia</em>.</p> <p>Data are tab separated .txt files.</p>
Data and R code from: Pollination interactions reveal direct costs and indirect benefits of plant–plant facilitation for ecosystem engineers
Ecosystem engineers substantially modify the environment via their impact on abiotic conditions and the biota, resulting in facilitation of associated species that would not otherwise grow. Yet, reciprocal effects are poorly understood as studies of plant–plant interactions usually estimate only benefits for associated species while hardly considering how another trophic level may mediate direct and indirect effects for ecosystem engineers. We run a field experiment with ecosystem engineers blooming either alone or with associated plants to decompose net effects and to test the hypothesis that pollinator-mediated interactions provide benefits which balance costs of facilitation by ecosystem engineers. We found that net costs of facilitation are accompanied by pollinator-mediated benefits. Despite ecosystem engineers producing less flowers per plant, they were visited by more and more diverse pollinators per flower when blooming with associated plants than when blooming alone. However, fruit set was unaffected by the presence of associated plants and seed production per plant was higher when ecosystem engineers bloomed alone. Our findings suggest that besides experiencing direct costs, ecosystem engineers can also benefit from facilitating other species via increasing their own visibility to pollinators. This study illuminates how the outcome of direct plant–plant interactions might be mediated by indirect interactions including third players.
Landscape structure and farming management interacts to modulate pollination supply and crop production in blueberries
<p><span>Pollination services are affected by landscape context, farming management, and pollinator community structure, all of which impact flower visitation rates, pollen deposition and final production. We studied these processes in Argentina for Highbush Blueberry crops which depend on pollinators to produce marketable yields. </span></p> <p><span>We studied how land cover and honeybee stocking influence the abundance of wild and managed pollinators in blueberry crops, using structural equation modeling to disentangle the cascading effects through which pollinators contribute to blueberry fruit number, size, nutritional content and overall yield. </span></p> <p><span>All pollinator functional groups responded to landscape changes at a spatial scale under 1000 m, and the significance or direction of the effects were modulated by the field-level deployment of honeybee hives. </span></p> <p><span>Fruit diameter increased with pollen deposited, but decreased with honeybee abundance, which, had indirect effects on fruit acidity and sugar content. Honeybees had a positive effect on the number of fruit produced by the plants and also benefited the overall yield (kg plant</span><sup><span>-1</span></sup><span>) through independent effects on both the quality and quantity components of fruit production.</span></p> <p><span><em>Synthesis and applications:</em> </span></p> <p><span>Deployment of beehives in blueberry fields can buffer, but not compensate for the negative effects on honeybee abundance produced by surrounding large scale none-flowering crops. Such compensation would require high-quality beehives by monitoring their health and strength.</span> <span>The </span><span>contribution of honeybees to crop production is not equal across production metrics. That is, higher abundance of honeybees increases the number of berries produced, but at the cost of smaller and more acidic fruits, potentially reducing market value. Growers must consider this trade-off between fruit quantity and quality when actively managing honeybee abundance. </span></p>
Data and code corresponding to the article "Interaction network structure explains species temporal persistence in empirical plant-pollinator communities"
<p>This upload contains the Datasets and code to generate the results of the article "Interaction network structure explains species temporal persistence in empirical plant-pollinator communities".</p><p>The database comprises two files containing the abundances of plants and pollinators, and one containing the interaction networks among plants and pollinators. </p><p>The code folder contains the code to generate the results, and to generate the figures of the manuscript. </p>
Agricultural soil legacy influences multitrophic interactions between crops, their pathogens, and pollinators
<p>Soil legacy influences plant interactions with antagonists and below-ground mutualists. Plant-antagonist interactions can jeopardize, while soil mutualists can enhance, plant-pollinator interactions. This suggests that soil legacy, either directly or mediated through plant symbionts, affects pollinators. However, despite the importance of pollinators to natural and managed ecosystems, there is almost no information on how soil legacy affects plant-pollinator interactions. We assessed effects of soil management legacy (organic vs. conventional) on floral rewards and plant interactions with wild pollinators, herbivores, beneficial fungi, and pathogens. We used an observational dataset and structural equation models to evaluate hypothesized relationships between soil and pollinators, then tested observed correlations in a manipulative experiment. Organic legacy increased mycorrhizal fungal colonization and improved resistance to powdery mildew, which promoted pollinator visitation. Further, soil legacy and powdery mildew independently and interactively impacted plant traits important to pollinators, including floral traits and floral reward nutrients. Our results indicate that pollination could be an overlooked consequence of soil legacy and suggests opportunity to develop long-term soil management plans that benefit pollinators and pollination.</p>
Data and code for: Shedding light on overlooked pollinators: Global insights into floral interactions of velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae and Myrmosidae)
<p>Data and code used in the article "Shedding light on overlooked pollinators: Global insights into floral interactions of velvet ants (Hymenoptera: Mutillidae and Myrmosidae)".</p>
Effects of different types of low-intensity management on plant-pollinator interactions in Estonian grasslands
<p>In the face of global pollinator decline, extensively-managed grasslands play an important role in supporting stable pollinator communities. However, different types of extensive management may promote particular plant species and thus particular functional traits. As the functional traits of flowering plant species (e.g. flower size and shape) in a habitat determine the identity and frequency of pollinator visitors, they can also influence the structures of plant-pollinator interaction networks. The aim of this study was to examine how the type of low-intensity traditional management influences plant and pollinator composition, the structure of plant-pollinator interactions, and their mediation by floral and insect functional traits. Specifically, we compared mown wooded meadows to grazed alvar pastures in western Estonia. We found that both management types fostered equal diversity of plants and pollinators, and overlapping, though still distinct, plant and pollinator compositions. Wooded meadows had significantly higher connectance and specialisation, while alvar pastures achieved higher Shannon diversity at a standardised sampling of interactions. Pollinators with small body sizes and short proboscis lengths were more specialised in their preference for particular plant species and the specialisation of individual pollinators was higher in alvar pastures than in wooded meadows. All in all, the two management types promoted diverse plant and pollinator communities, which enabled the development of equally even and nested pollination networks. The same generalist plants and pollinators were important for the pollination networks of both wooded meadows and alvar pastures; however, they were complemented by management-specific species, which accounted for differences in network structure. Therefore, the implementation of both management types in the same landscape helps to maintain high species and interaction diversity.</p>
Datasets from Ganuza et al. 2022: Interactive effects of climate and land use on pollinator diversity differ among taxa and scales
<p>Datasets used in Ganuza et al. 2022: Interactive effects of climate and land use on pollinator diversity differ among taxa and scales. Local and regional data are provided in separate files for the environmental variables, plant species composition and the composition of the different pollinator taxa.</p>
Stable species and interactions in plant-pollinator networks deviate from core position in fragmented habitats
<p><span>S</span><span>pecies</span><span> and their interactions are more dynamic over time and space</span> <span>in</span><span> fragmented habitats </span><span>than</span><span> in continuous habitats</span><span>.</span> <span>In fragmented habitats,</span><span> the</span> <span>low </span><span>nestedness</span> <span>of </span><span>mutualistic</span><span> networks may be related to the</span> <span>position</span><span> change</span> <span>of stable (high persistence over time/space) species and interactions in </span><span>the</span><span> network</span><span>s.</span><span> Previous studies</span> <span>have shown that </span><span>s</span><span>table species </span><span>and</span><span> interactions tend to </span><span>be in</span><span> the core position </span><span>of</span> <span>mutualistic</span><span> networks</span><span>. </span><span>H</span><span>owever</span><span>, </span><span>in fragmented habitats</span><span>, </span><span>it remains unknown whether </span><span>stable species or interactions still </span><span>tend to </span><span>be in</span><span> the core position.</span><span> </span><span>To address this gap,</span> <span>here</span><span> we evaluated </span><span>the correlation between the position of proximity to the network core and the temporal/spatial stability of </span><span>species and interactions</span><span>, </span><span>using</span> <span>the </span><span>observation of 42 plant-pollinator networks conducted in a fragmented island landscape over 3 years</span><span>.</span> <span>We showed that temporally/spatially </span><span>stable </span><span>species </span><span>and</span><span> interactions </span><span>deviated from the network core</span><span> to varying degrees</span><span>. Temporally stable plants</span><span> were</span> <span>most likely to deviate from the network core, followed by</span> <span>pollinators and</span> <span>interactions</span><span>, while only </span><span>spatially stable </span><span>pollinators</span><span> tend to </span><span>deviate from the network core</span><span>. </span><span>When unstable species (</span><span>present in few time/space points</span><span>, </span><span>typically specialists) and interactions occupy the network core,</span> <span>they cannot interact with most species in the network </span><span>as</span><span> generalists</span> <span>do</span><span>, </span><span>result</span><span>ing</span> <span>in</span> <span>the</span> <span>decrease of network nestedness. Therefore, from the perspective of</span><span> position and stability,</span><span> s</span><span>table species and interactions </span><span>deviate from the network core</span> <span>in</span> <span>fragmented habitats</span><span>, which </span><span>is an important reason for</span><span> the</span><span> decrease of</span><span> nestedness in </span><span>mutualistic</span><span> networks</span><span>.</span><span> </span><span>Our study</span><span> suggests that protecting</span> <span>plants that</span><span> occupy the core in large plant-pollinator networks is </span><span>essential for</span> <span>maintaining the network persistence in fragmented habitats.</span></p>
Data from: Integrating effects of neighbor interactions for pollination
<p>Animal-pollinated plants interact with neighbors for both abiotic resources and pollination, with consequences for reproduction and yield. Yet few studies have compared the relative magnitude of these effects, particularly in agroecosystems. In vertically stratified communities, such as agroforests, neighbor effects may be stratum-dependent. Understanding the net effects of neighbors on crop yield is important for managing multifunctional agroecosystems to simultaneously support production and biodiversity. This study evaluated the effects of neighboring plants on pollen deposition, fertilization, and yield in Coffea arabica in a shaded organic coffee farm with high non-crop plant abundance and diversity in Chiapas, Mexico. We assessed the impact of 1) floral resources at three vertical strata (herbs, coffee bushes, and canopy trees) on stigma pollen load (a measure of interaction for pollination), and 2) floral density and canopy cover (proxies for competition for abiotic resources) on yield (final fruit set and per-fruit weight), using structural equation modeling to evaluate the relative effect of each interaction type. Coffee competed for pollination with neighbors (conspecifics and heterospecifics) across strata. Pollen load influenced final fruit set, but the effect of neighbor competition for pollination was weaker than effects mediated by interaction for abiotic resources. Effects of interactions for abiotic resources were heterogeneous across strata, with negligible effects of herb-layer or coffee flower density but net positive effects of canopy trees on final fruit set. Overall effects of neighbors on coffee yield were weak, suggesting that coffee agroecosystems can be managed to maintain high plant density and diversity without sacrificing yield.</p>
Dataset of pollinator functional traits and interaction networks in neotropical mangroves: effects of patch size and surrounding land use
<p>This is the dataset of the manuscript entitled "Pollinator functional traits and interaction networks in neotropical mangroves: effects of patch size and surrounding land use", which was submitted for publication. The dataset include the functional traits of 162 insect pollinator species and 315 interactions with the mangrove species <em>Avicennia germinans, Conocarpus erectus, Laguncularia racemosa,</em> and <em>Rhizophora</em> <em>mangle</em>. The manuscript evaluates the effects of mangrove patch size and surrounding land use on pollinator functional diversity and plant-pollinator interactions in seven mangrove patches from the Colombian Caribbean region. Data variables are pollinator order, family, species, functional traits (pollinator guilds, body size, feeding preference, sociality, and nesting site) and frequency, interacting mangrove species, mangrove patch name, coordinates and size (ha), surrounding land use areas (urban areas, croplands, conserved dry forest, degraded vegetation areas, beach and water) and landscape diversity (Shannon H').</p>
Data from: Climatic conditions and landscape diversity predict plant-bee interactions and pollen deposition in bee-pollinated plants.
<p>Climate change, landscape homogenization and the decline of beneficial insects threaten pollination services to wild plants and crops. Understanding how pollination potential (i.e. the capacity of ecosystems to support pollination of plants) is affected by climate change and landscape homogenization is fundamental for our ability to predict how such anthropogenic stressors affect plant biodiversity. Models of pollinator potential are improved when based on pairwise plant-pollinator interactions and pollinator´s plant preferences. However, whether the sum of predicted pairwise interactions with a plant within a habitat (a proxy for pollination potential) relates to pollen deposition on flowering plants has not yet been investigated. We sampled plant-bee interactions in 68 Scandinavian plant communities in landscapes of varying land-cover heterogeneity along a latitudinal temperature gradient of 4–8 C°, and estimated pollen deposition as the number of pollen grains on flowers of the bee-pollinated plants <em>Lotus corniculatus</em>, and <em>Vicia cracca</em>. We show that plant-bee interactions, and the pollination potential for these bee-pollinated plants increase with landscape diversity, annual mean temperature, plant abundance, and decrease with distances to sand-dominated soils. Furthermore, the pollen deposition in flowers increased with the predicted pollination potential, which was driven by landscape diversity and plant abundance. Our study illustrates that the pollination potential, and thus pollen deposition, for wild plants can be mapped based on spatial models of plant-bee interactions that incorporate pollinator-specific plant preferences. Maps of pollination potential can be used to guide conservation and restoration planning.</p>
Network analysis highlights increased generalisation and evenness of plant-pollinator interactions after conservation measures
<p><strong>DATASET used in the article entitled</strong> “Network analysis highlights increased generalisation and evenness of plant-pollinator interactions after conservation measures”.</p> <p>We supply weighted and binary matrices used for plant-pollinator network analyses, before and after the implementation of conservation measures.</p> <p>We also supply the list of plant and pollinator species recorded in this study.</p>
R code and datasets for flower-visitor interactions (pollinators, robbers, thieves) and plant traits from Mount Cameroon
<p>Raw data and R code for: <strong>Cheaters among pollinators: Nectar robbing and thieving vary spatiotemporally with floral traits in Afrotropical forests. </strong><i>Ecosphere, 2023</i>. doi: 10.1002/ecs2.4696<br> </p><p>When using the dataset for anything, cite the Sakhalkar et al. <i>Ecosphere </i>paper.</p><p><br>All related information can be found in the cited paper. For additional information, refer to the paper or write to either robert.tropek@gmail.com or sailee.sakha@gmail.com.</p>
Data: Inbreeding in a dioecious plant has sex- and population origin-specific effects on its interactions with pollinators
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Landscape structure and farming management interacts to modulate pollination supply and crop production in blueberries
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Hibiscus bullseyes reveal mechanisms controlling petal pattern proportions that influence plant-pollinator interactions
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Agricultural soil legacy influences multitrophic interactions between crops, their pathogens, and pollinators
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