🌼 Herbivory disrupts plant–pollinator relationships in ways that depend on the type of tissue and the type of damage. This highlights the tight ecological and evolutionary links between herbivores, pollinators and plant traits. (9/9)
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🌿 Join us to learn about the newly published review ‘The effect of herbivory on pollinators: a revisited meta-analysis’ in @AnnBot by Stephanie Haas-Desmarais and co-authors. 🧵(1/9)
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Very proud of PhD student Cedric Maforimbo, who successfully defended his PhD thesis in viva today!
Cedric's research work is really interesting - he has piloted some new methods to identify #pollen loads on #bees & match with plants in the field margin. He has also carried out a tonne of fieldwork addressing some of our knowledge gaps around the role of field margins in support crop pollination in African legume systems, given us a load more information about what pollinates common bean (we REALLY need to understand the distribution of Xylocopa spp. and their habitat needs), and been a great colleague.
Pleasure to work with a brilliant supervisory team Phil Stevenson, Angela Mkindi, Steve Harte.
Well done Cedric!
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Exploring nocturnal pollinators with Max Buxton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZPYZdYPIdU #PollinationEcology #Agriculture @plantscience
Daphne laureola L. is blooming. It is a winter plant species and it is pollinated by insects. Yes: there are Winter-dwelling insects.
Obviously in Southern Spain only, its local main pollinator was identified as Clypeogethes elongatus (rosenh.) (a pollen beetle).
Here it's not Spain. Pollen beetles are not foraging now. I have drawn a list of winter foragers in my forest and have suspicions about some species. But I can not confirm. Weirdly, I'm finding no reference about D. laureola L. pollination outside Mediterranean. Is anyone aware of a reference, I would have missed?
Full paper: James, K.L., Springate, S., Harte, S.J., Farman, D.I., Colgan, R.J., & Arnold, S.E.J. (2024). Buzzing benefits: How multi-species pollination boosts strawberry yield, quality, and nutritional value. Journal of Pollination Ecology, 36, 326–340. https://doi.org/10.26786/1920-7603(2024)788 [6/6]
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🌼The article suggests B. aurea showcases a remarkable adaptation, illustrating how floral polymorphisms can be finely tuned to exploit specific pollination niches. (6/6)
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