Plants, pollinators and their interactions under global ecological change: The role of pollen DNA metabarcoding.

Autor: Bell KL; CSIRO Health & Biosecurity and CSIRO Land & Water, Floreat, WA, Australia.; School of Biological Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia., Turo KJ; Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA., Lowe A; National Botanic Garden of Wales, Llanarthne, UK., Nota K; Department of Ecology and Genetics, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden., Keller A; Organismic and Cellular Networks, Faculty of Biology, Biocenter, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Planegg, Germany., Encinas-Viso F; Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research, CSIRO, Black Mountain, Australian Capital Territory, Australia., Parducci L; Department of Ecology and Genetics, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.; Department of Environmental Biology, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy., Richardson RT; Appalachian Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Frostburg, Maryland, USA., Leggett RM; Earlham Institute, Norwich Research Park, Norwich, Norfolk, UK., Brosi BJ; Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA., Burgess KS; Department of Biology, College of Letters and Sciences, Columbus State University, University System of Georgia, Atlanta, Georgia, USA., Suyama Y; Field Science Center, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Tohoku University, Osaki, Miyagi, Japan., de Vere N; Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Molecular ecology [Mol Ecol] 2023 Dec; Vol. 32 (23), pp. 6345-6362. Date of Electronic Publication: 2022 Sep 26.
DOI: 10.1111/mec.16689
Abstrakt: Anthropogenic activities are triggering global changes in the environment, causing entire communities of plants, pollinators and their interactions to restructure, and ultimately leading to species declines. To understand the mechanisms behind community shifts and declines, as well as monitoring and managing impacts, a global effort must be made to characterize plant-pollinator communities in detail, across different habitat types, latitudes, elevations, and levels and types of disturbances. Generating data of this scale will only be feasible with rapid, high-throughput methods. Pollen DNA metabarcoding provides advantages in throughput, efficiency and taxonomic resolution over traditional methods, such as microscopic pollen identification and visual observation of plant-pollinator interactions. This makes it ideal for understanding complex ecological networks and their responses to change. Pollen DNA metabarcoding is currently being applied to assess plant-pollinator interactions, survey ecosystem change and model the spatiotemporal distribution of allergenic pollen. Where samples are available from past collections, pollen DNA metabarcoding has been used to compare contemporary and past ecosystems. New avenues of research are possible with the expansion of pollen DNA metabarcoding to intraspecific identification, analysis of DNA in ancient pollen samples, and increased use of museum and herbarium specimens. Ongoing developments in sequencing technologies can accelerate progress towards these goals. Global ecological change is happening rapidly, and we anticipate that high-throughput methods such as pollen DNA metabarcoding are critical for understanding the evolutionary and ecological processes that support biodiversity, and predicting and responding to the impacts of change.
(© 2022 The Authors. Molecular Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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