Flower‐visitor communities of an arcto‐alpine plant—Global patterns in species richness, phylogenetic diversity and ecological functioning
Pollination is an ecosystem function of global importance. Yet, who visits the flower of specific plants, how the composition of these visitors varies in space and time and how such variation translates into pollination services are hard to establish. The use of DNA barcodes allows us to address eco...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:6378624 2023-05-15T14:55:38+02:00 Flower‐visitor communities of an arcto‐alpine plant—Global patterns in species richness, phylogenetic diversity and ecological functioning Tiusanen, Mikko Huotari, Tea Hebert, Paul D. N. Andersson, Tommi Asmus, Ashley Bêty, Joël Davis, Emma Gale, Jennifer Hardwick, Bess Hik, David Körner, Christian Lanctot, Richard B. Loonen, Maarten J. J. E. Partanen, Rauni Reischke, Karissa Saalfeld, Sarah T. Senez‐Gagnon, Fanny Smith, Paul A. Šulavík, Ján Syvänperä, Ilkka Urbanowicz, Christine Williams, Sian Woodard, Paul Zaika, Yulia Roslin, Tomas 2018-12-07 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6378624/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30418699 https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14932 en eng John Wiley and Sons Inc. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6378624/ http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30418699 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.14932 © 2018 The Authors. Molecular Ecology Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. CC-BY Molecular Insights into Community Assembly Text 2018 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.14932 2019-03-03T01:28:25Z Pollination is an ecosystem function of global importance. Yet, who visits the flower of specific plants, how the composition of these visitors varies in space and time and how such variation translates into pollination services are hard to establish. The use of DNA barcodes allows us to address ecological patterns involving thousands of taxa that are difficult to identify. To clarify the regional variation in the visitor community of a widespread flower resource, we compared the composition of the arthropod community visiting species in the genus Dryas (mountain avens, family Rosaceae), throughout Arctic and high‐alpine areas. At each of 15 sites, we sampled Dryas visitors with 100 sticky flower mimics and identified specimens to Barcode Index Numbers (BINs) using a partial sequence of the mitochondrial COI gene. As a measure of ecosystem functioning, we quantified variation in the seed set of Dryas. To test for an association between phylogenetic and functional diversity, we characterized the structure of local visitor communities with both taxonomic and phylogenetic descriptors. In total, we detected 1,360 different BINs, dominated by Diptera and Hymenoptera. The richness of visitors at each site appeared to be driven by local temperature and precipitation. Phylogeographic structure seemed reflective of geological history and mirrored trans‐Arctic patterns detected in plants. Seed set success varied widely among sites, with little variation attributable to pollinator species richness. This pattern suggests idiosyncratic associations, with function dominated by few and potentially different taxa at each site. Taken together, our findings illustrate the role of post‐glacial history in the assembly of flower‐visitor communities in the Arctic and offer insights for understanding how diversity translates into ecosystem functioning. Text Arctic Mountain avens PubMed Central (PMC) Arctic Molecular Ecology 28 2 318 335 |
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Pollination is an ecosystem function of global importance. Yet, who visits the flower of specific plants, how the composition of these visitors varies in space and time and how such variation translates into pollination services are hard to establish. The use of DNA barcodes allows us to address ecological patterns involving thousands of taxa that are difficult to identify. To clarify the regional variation in the visitor community of a widespread flower resource, we compared the composition of the arthropod community visiting species in the genus Dryas (mountain avens, family Rosaceae), throughout Arctic and high‐alpine areas. At each of 15 sites, we sampled Dryas visitors with 100 sticky flower mimics and identified specimens to Barcode Index Numbers (BINs) using a partial sequence of the mitochondrial COI gene. As a measure of ecosystem functioning, we quantified variation in the seed set of Dryas. To test for an association between phylogenetic and functional diversity, we characterized the structure of local visitor communities with both taxonomic and phylogenetic descriptors. In total, we detected 1,360 different BINs, dominated by Diptera and Hymenoptera. The richness of visitors at each site appeared to be driven by local temperature and precipitation. Phylogeographic structure seemed reflective of geological history and mirrored trans‐Arctic patterns detected in plants. Seed set success varied widely among sites, with little variation attributable to pollinator species richness. This pattern suggests idiosyncratic associations, with function dominated by few and potentially different taxa at each site. Taken together, our findings illustrate the role of post‐glacial history in the assembly of flower‐visitor communities in the Arctic and offer insights for understanding how diversity translates into ecosystem functioning. |
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Tiusanen, Mikko Huotari, Tea Hebert, Paul D. N. Andersson, Tommi Asmus, Ashley Bêty, Joël Davis, Emma Gale, Jennifer Hardwick, Bess Hik, David Körner, Christian Lanctot, Richard B. Loonen, Maarten J. J. E. Partanen, Rauni Reischke, Karissa Saalfeld, Sarah T. Senez‐Gagnon, Fanny Smith, Paul A. Šulavík, Ján Syvänperä, Ilkka Urbanowicz, Christine Williams, Sian Woodard, Paul Zaika, Yulia Roslin, Tomas |
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Tiusanen, Mikko Huotari, Tea Hebert, Paul D. N. Andersson, Tommi Asmus, Ashley Bêty, Joël Davis, Emma Gale, Jennifer Hardwick, Bess Hik, David Körner, Christian Lanctot, Richard B. Loonen, Maarten J. J. E. Partanen, Rauni Reischke, Karissa Saalfeld, Sarah T. Senez‐Gagnon, Fanny Smith, Paul A. Šulavík, Ján Syvänperä, Ilkka Urbanowicz, Christine Williams, Sian Woodard, Paul Zaika, Yulia Roslin, Tomas |
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Flower‐visitor communities of an arcto‐alpine plant—Global patterns in species richness, phylogenetic diversity and ecological functioning |
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Flower‐visitor communities of an arcto‐alpine plant—Global patterns in species richness, phylogenetic diversity and ecological functioning |
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Flower‐visitor communities of an arcto‐alpine plant—Global patterns in species richness, phylogenetic diversity and ecological functioning |
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Flower‐visitor communities of an arcto‐alpine plant—Global patterns in species richness, phylogenetic diversity and ecological functioning |
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Flower‐visitor communities of an arcto‐alpine plant—Global patterns in species richness, phylogenetic diversity and ecological functioning |
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flower‐visitor communities of an arcto‐alpine plant—global patterns in species richness, phylogenetic diversity and ecological functioning |
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