Effects of different types of low-intensity management on plant-pollinator interactions in Estonian grasslands

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Alternative codes found

RIV/67985939:_____/21:00552746

Result on the web

<a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.8325" target="_blank" >https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.8325</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.8325" target="_blank" >10.1002/ece3.8325</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Effects of different types of low-intensity management on plant-pollinator interactions in Estonian grasslands

Original language description

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 help determine the identity and frequency of pollinator visitors, they can also influence the structures of plant-pollinator interaction networks (i.e., pollination 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 meadow pollination networks had significantly higher connectance and specialization, while alvar pasture networks achieved higher interaction diversity at a standardized sampling of interactions. Pollinators with small body sizes and short proboscis lengths were more specialized in their preference for particular plant species and the specialization 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 plant and pollinator species 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.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10618 - Ecology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Ecology and Evolution

ISSN

2045-7758

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

11

Issue of the periodical within the volume

23

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

16909-16926

UT code for WoS article

000721434600001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85119674257