Changing pollinator communities along a disturbance gradient in the Sundarbans mangrove forest: A case study on Acanthus ilicifolius and Avicennia officinalis

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60077344:_____/20:00534274

Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01282" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.gecco.2020.e01282</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Changing pollinator communities along a disturbance gradient in the Sundarbans mangrove forest: A case study on Acanthus ilicifolius and Avicennia officinalis

Original language description

The Sundarbans, the largest mangrove forest in the world and a UNESCO world heritage site has been facing increasing pressure of habitat destruction. Yet, no study has been conducted to test how human disturbances are affecting plant-pollinator interactions in this unique ecosystem. Hence, we aimed to provide the first insight into the impact of habitat loss and human disturbances on the pollinator communities in the Sundarbans. We selected 12 sites in the North-Western region of the Sundarbans, along a gradient of decreasing habitat loss and human activities from forest fragments near human settlements to continuous pristine forest, where we studied insect pollinators of two mangrove plant species, Acanthus ilicifolius and Avicennia officinalis. Our results show that different pollinator groups responded to the disturbance gradient differently. For example, the abundance of Apis dorsata, one of the three local species of honey bees, increased gradually from the village area towards the deep pristine forest. On the other hand, A. cerana and A. florea were found in the village sites and completely absent in the deep forest. Although pollinator community composition changed along the disturbance gradient, their efficacy in pollination did not seem to be significantly affected. However, lower plant diversity and low understory plant cover in the forest patches nearby the village indicated that human disturbances not only affected pollinator community composition but also played a major negative role in the regeneration of the forest. Our study provides first insights into plant pollinator interactions in the Sundarbans and demonstrates that more research is needed to imply conservation strategies for this unique habitat. (C) 2020 Published by Elsevier B.V.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

<a href="/en/project/GJ17-24795Y" target="_blank" >GJ17-24795Y: Networks of plants, pollinators, and thieves: from individual-level interactions to community-level coevolutionary trends</a><br>

Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Global Ecology and Conservation

ISSN

2351-9894

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

24

Issue of the periodical within the volume

DEC 2020

Country of publishing house

NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

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UT code for WoS article

000608479800007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85092306371