Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19550
Title: Biodiversity ensures plant-pollinator phenological synchrony against climate change
Contributor(s): Bartomeus, Ignasi (author); Park, Mia G (author); Gibbs, Jason (author); Danforth, Bryan N (author); Lakso, Alan N (author); Winfree, Rachael (author)
Publication Date: 2013
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12170
Handle Link: https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/19550
Abstract: Climate change has the potential to alter the phenological synchrony between interacting mutualists, such as plants and their pollinators. However, high levels of biodiversity might buffer the negative effects of species-specific phenological shifts and maintain synchrony at the community level, as predicted by the biodiversity insurance hypothesis. Here, we explore how biodiversity might enhance and stabilise phenological synchrony between a valuable crop, apple and its native pollinators. We combine 46 years of data on apple flowering phenology with historical records of bee pollinators over the same period. When the key apple pollinators are considered altogether, we found extensive synchrony between bee activity and apple peak bloom due to complementarity among bee species' activity periods, and also a stable trend over time due to differential responses to warming climate among bee species. A simulation model confirms that high biodiversity levels can ensure plant-pollinator phenological synchrony and thus pollination function.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Source of Publication: Ecology Letters, 16(11), p. 1331-1338
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Place of Publication: United Kingdom
ISSN: 1461-0248
1461-023X
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: 050101 Ecological Impacts of Climate Change
060202 Community Ecology (excl. Invasive Species Ecology)
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: 410102 Ecological impacts of climate change and ecological adaptation
310302 Community ecology (excl. invasive species ecology)
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: 960501 Ecosystem Assessment and Management at Regional or Larger Scales
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: 180403 Assessment and management of Antarctic and Southern Ocean ecosystems
Peer Reviewed: Yes
HERDC Category Description: C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal
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