Preference of Pollinators over Various Forage Mixtures and Microelement Treatments

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62156489%3A43210%2F22%3A43921170" target="_blank" >RIV/62156489:43210/22:43921170 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/00216275:25310/22:39919160 RIV/60076658:12220/22:43905862

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12020370" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12020370</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agronomy12020370" target="_blank" >10.3390/agronomy12020370</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Preference of Pollinators over Various Forage Mixtures and Microelement Treatments

Original language description

Low plant species richness and abundance, as well as contamination, can lead to a lack of nutrients in the diets of pollinators. This can cause increased oxidative stress, low resistance to disease and reduced detoxification ability. We proposed three forage mixtures with different botanical compositions, all of which should provide continuous forage for a wide range of pollinators. The monitored mixtures were treated by foliar application with selenium and zinc. Both elements should increase the quality of pollen and nectar. The effect of meadow mixtures and microelements on pollinator abundance, richness, and preference was evaluated using data obtained via the line transect method. Furthermore, the amount of selenium and zinc in the flowers was determined. It was found that the microelement treatment did not have any effect on the abundance and richness of the main pollinator taxa, which were affected only by a botanical composition of meadow mix-tures. However, a preference for zinc-treated forage was observed in Apis mellifera, and a preference for selenium-treated forage was observed in Bombus spp. These two eusocial taxa appear to respond to an increased amount of microelements in the treated meadow mixtures. On the con-trary, Lepidoptera was tied to untreated forage, where they were probably pushed by social bee species due to the competition.

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

40106 - Agronomy, plant breeding and plant protection; (Agricultural biotechnology to be 4.4)

Project

<a href="/en/project/TJ04000048" target="_blank" >TJ04000048: Foliar nutrition of forage plants with selenium and zinc and its impact on their qualitative and quantitative characteristics and the environment of the organisms occurring within these ecosystems</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2022

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Agronomy

ISSN

2073-4395

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

12

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CH - SWITZERLAND

Number of pages

14

Pages from-to

370

UT code for WoS article

000763380800001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85124002885