Ellis, E.E. orcid.org/0000-0001-7862-3353, Edmondson, J.L., Maher, K.H. et al. (2 more authors) (2023) Negative effects of urbanisation on diurnal and nocturnal pollen‐transport networks. Ecology Letters, 26 (8). pp. 1382-1393. ISSN 1461-023X
Abstract
Pollinating insects are declining due to habitat loss and climate change, and cities with limited habitat and floral resources may be particularly vulnerable. The effects of urban landscapes on pollination networks remain poorly understood, and comparative studies of taxa with divergent niches are lacking. Here, for the first time, we simultaneously compare nocturnal moth and diurnal bee pollen-transport networks using DNA metabarcoding and ask how pollination networks are affected by increasing urbanisation. Bees and moths exhibited substantial divergence in the communities of plants they interact with. Increasing urbanisation had comparable negative effects on pollen-transport networks of both taxa, with significant declines in pollen species richness. We show that moths are an important, but overlooked, component of urban pollen-transport networks for wild flowering plants, horticultural crops, and trees. Our findings highlight the need to include both bee and non-bee taxa when assessing the status of critical plant-insect interactions in urbanised landscapes.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Authors. Ecology Letters published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | DNA metabarcoding; bees; diurnal pollination; moths; nocturnal pollination; pollen-transport networks; urban horticulture; urbanisation |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > School of Biosciences (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 13 Jun 2023 16:12 |
Last Modified: | 04 Oct 2024 13:37 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1111/ele.14261 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:200349 |