Authors
Joanne M Bennett, Janette A Steets, Jean H Burns, Laura A Burkle, Jana C Vamosi, Marina Wolowski, Gerardo Arceo-Gómez, Martin Burd, Walter Durka, Allan G Ellis, Leandro Freitas, Junmin Li, James G Rodger, Valentin Ştefan, Jing Xia, Tiffany M Knight, Tia-Lynn Ashman
Publication date
2020/8/10
Journal
Nature Communications
Volume
11
Issue
1
Pages
3999
Publisher
Nature Publishing Group UK
Description
Land use change, by disrupting the co-evolved interactions between plants and their pollinators, could be causing plant reproduction to be limited by pollen supply. Using a phylogenetically controlled meta-analysis on over 2200 experimental studies and more than 1200 wild plants, we ask if land use intensification is causing plant reproduction to be pollen limited at global scales. Here we report that plants reliant on pollinators in urban settings are more pollen limited than similarly pollinator-reliant plants in other landscapes. Plants functionally specialized on bee pollinators are more pollen limited in natural than managed vegetation, but the reverse is true for plants pollinated exclusively by a non-bee functional group or those pollinated by multiple functional groups. Plants ecologically specialized on a single pollinator taxon were extremely pollen limited across land use types. These results suggest that while …
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