Pollinator dependence but no pollen limitation for eight plants occurring north of the Arctic Circle
Effective interactions between plants and pollinators are essential for the reproduction of plant species. Pollinator exclusion experiments and pollen supplementation experiments quantify the degree to which plants depend on animal pollinators and the degree to which plant reproduction is pollen lim...
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ftpubmed:oai:pubmedcentral.nih.gov:7771129 2023-05-15T14:42:07+02:00 Pollinator dependence but no pollen limitation for eight plants occurring north of the Arctic Circle Koch, Viviane Zoller, Leana Bennett, Joanne M. Knight, Tiffany M. 2020-11-28 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7771129/ https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6884 en eng John Wiley and Sons Inc. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7771129/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6884 © 2020 The Authors. Ecology and Evolution 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 Ecol Evol Original Research Text 2020 ftpubmed https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.6884 2021-01-03T02:02:04Z Effective interactions between plants and pollinators are essential for the reproduction of plant species. Pollinator exclusion experiments and pollen supplementation experiments quantify the degree to which plants depend on animal pollinators and the degree to which plant reproduction is pollen limited. Pollen supplementation experiments have been conducted across the globe, but are rare in high latitude regions. To fill this knowledge gap, we experimentally investigated the dependence on animal pollinators and magnitude of pollen limitation in eight plant species north of the Arctic Circle in Lapland, Finland. Our findings show that all plant species were pollinator dependent, but not pollen limited. We discuss several mechanisms that might buffer our focal plants from pollen limitation, including plant and pollinator generalization, and attractive plant traits. Our results demonstrate that many plant species north of the Arctic Circle are currently receiving adequate pollinator service and provide a baseline for future comparisons of pollinator dependence and pollen limitation in the Arctic across space and time. Text Arctic Lapland PubMed Central (PMC) Arctic Ecology and Evolution 10 24 13664 13672 |
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Effective interactions between plants and pollinators are essential for the reproduction of plant species. Pollinator exclusion experiments and pollen supplementation experiments quantify the degree to which plants depend on animal pollinators and the degree to which plant reproduction is pollen limited. Pollen supplementation experiments have been conducted across the globe, but are rare in high latitude regions. To fill this knowledge gap, we experimentally investigated the dependence on animal pollinators and magnitude of pollen limitation in eight plant species north of the Arctic Circle in Lapland, Finland. Our findings show that all plant species were pollinator dependent, but not pollen limited. We discuss several mechanisms that might buffer our focal plants from pollen limitation, including plant and pollinator generalization, and attractive plant traits. Our results demonstrate that many plant species north of the Arctic Circle are currently receiving adequate pollinator service and provide a baseline for future comparisons of pollinator dependence and pollen limitation in the Arctic across space and time. |
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Pollinator dependence but no pollen limitation for eight plants occurring north of the Arctic Circle |
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Pollinator dependence but no pollen limitation for eight plants occurring north of the Arctic Circle |
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Pollinator dependence but no pollen limitation for eight plants occurring north of the Arctic Circle |
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