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Flower-rich, mixed landscapes support more pollinators
Across 20 natural communities, wild pollinator abundance rose with local flower richness and landscape heterogeneity, linking land-use homogenization to weaker pollination networks.
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What land-use process threatens pollinators here?
Homogenization of landscapes and communities.
Source: Pollinator richness, pollination networks, and diet adjustment along local and landscape gradients of resource diversity · DOI · quote verified
At which two scales was resource diversity measured?
Landscape heterogeneity and local flower richness.
Source: Pollinator richness, pollination networks, and diet adjustment along local and landscape gradients of resource diversity · DOI · quote verified
How many communities were surveyed?
20 natural plant–pollinator communities.
Source: Pollinator richness, pollination networks, and diet adjustment along local and landscape gradients of resource diversity · DOI · quote verified
How many visits were recorded?
9,635 visits.
Source: Pollinator richness, pollination networks, and diet adjustment along local and landscape gradients of resource diversity · DOI · quote verified
Which guild made the most visits?
Beetles (6,983 visits).
Source: Pollinator richness, pollination networks, and diet adjustment along local and landscape gradients of resource diversity · DOI · quote verified
Mean standardized wild pollinator richness?
About 48 species per site (range 34–67).
Source: Pollinator richness, pollination networks, and diet adjustment along local and landscape gradients of resource diversity · DOI · quote verified
What best predicted total wild pollinator abundance?
Flower richness and (marginally) 1 km landscape heterogeneity.
Source: Pollinator richness, pollination networks, and diet adjustment along local and landscape gradients of resource diversity · DOI · quote verified
Were honeybees abundant?
Present everywhere but relatively low (mean ~69 visits/site).
Source: Pollinator richness, pollination networks, and diet adjustment along local and landscape gradients of resource diversity · DOI · quote verified
Why do network metrics matter?
Specialization and modularity are linked to network stability.
Source: Pollinator richness, pollination networks, and diet adjustment along local and landscape gradients of resource diversity · DOI · quote verified
Mean flowering plant species per site?
About 43 (167 species across communities).
Source: Pollinator richness, pollination networks, and diet adjustment along local and landscape gradients of resource diversity · DOI · quote verified