Complementary contribution of wild bumblebees and managed honeybee to the pollination niche of an introduced blueberry crop
| Autor: | Daniel García, Marcos Miñarro |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad (España), European Commission |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Bombus pratorum
0106 biological sciences Pollination Science Apis mellifera Foraging Biology medicine.disease_cause 010603 evolutionary biology 01 natural sciences Article Vaccinium ashei Bombus pascuorum Pollinator Bombus terrestris Pollen medicine Niche segregation Domestication Bumblebee Environmental niche Ecology biology.organism_classification 010602 entomology Spatio-temporal segregation Insect Science Crop pollination Foraging behaviour |
| Zdroj: | Insects, Vol 12, Iss 595, p 595 (2021) Scopus RUO. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Oviedo instname Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC Insects Volume 12 Issue 7 |
| Popis: | The entomophilous pollination niche (abundance, phenotypic traits, foraging behaviours and environmental tolerances of insect pollinators) helps to understand and better manage crop polli-nation. We apply this niche approach to assess how an entomophilous crop (blueberry, Vaccinium ashei) can be expanded into new territories (i.e., northern Spain) far from their original area of domestication (North America). Insect visits to blueberry flowers were monitored in a plantation on 12 different days, at 8 different times during day and covering various weather conditions. Abundance, visitation rate, pollen gathering behaviour, and frequency of inter-plant and inter-row movements were recorded. The pollinator assemblage was basically composed of one managed honeybee species (50.8% of visits) and three native bumblebee species (48.3%). There was a marked pattern of seasonal segregation throughout bloom, with bumblebees dominating the early bloom and honeybee the late bloom. Pollinators also segregated along gradients of daily temperature and relative humidity. Finally, the two pollinator types differed in foraging behaviour, with bumblebees having a visitation rate double that of honeybee, collecting pollen more frequently and changing plant and row more frequently. The spatio-temporal and functional complementarity between honeybee and bumblebees suggested here encourages the consideration of an integrated crop pollination strategy for blueberries, based on the concurrence of both wild and managed bees. The study was supported by grants INIA-RTA2013-00139-C03-01 and INIA-RTA2017-00051-C02-01 (Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (MinECo) and Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional) to MM. |
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