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DOI 10.3390/plants11151976
Licence creative commons licence
Title (Primary) Effect of landscape composition and invasive plants on pollination networks of smallholder orchards in Northeastern Thailand
Author Simla, P.; Chaianunporn, T.; Sankamethawee, W.; Hughes, A.C.; Sritongchuay, T.
Source Titel Plants
Year 2022
Department CLE
Volume 11
Issue 15
Page From art. 1976
Language englisch
Topic T5 Future Landscapes
Supplements https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/11/15/1976/s1?version=1659097828
Keywords biological invasions; invasive plants; land-use change; pollinator communities; pollination networks
Abstract Destruction of natural habitat, land-use changes and biological invasion are some of the major threats to biodiversity. Both habitat alteration and biological invasions can have impacts on pollinator communities and pollination network structures. This study aims to examine the effect of an invasive plant, praxelis (Praxelis clematidea; Asteraceae), and land-use types on pollinator communities and the structure of pollination networks. We conducted the study in smallholder orchards which are either invaded or non-invaded by P. clematidea. We estimated the pollinator richness, visitation rates, and pollinator diversity and evaluated the network structures from 18 smallholder orchards in Northeastern Thailand. The effect of landscape structure in the vicinity of the orchards was investigated, with the proportion of agricultural, forest, and urban landscape within a 3 km radius analyzed. The invasive species and land-use disturbance influence the pollinator communities and pollination network structure at species level was affected by the presence of P. clematidea. Bees were the most important pollinator group for pollinator communities and pollination networks of both invaded or non-invaded plots, as bees are a generalist species, they provide the coherence of both the network and its own module. The urban landscape had a strong negative influence on pollinator richness, while the proportions of agriculture and forest landscape positively affected the pollinator community.
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Simla, P., Chaianunporn, T., Sankamethawee, W., Hughes, A.C., Sritongchuay, T. (2022):
Effect of landscape composition and invasive plants on pollination networks of smallholder orchards in Northeastern Thailand
Plants 11 (15), art. 1976 10.3390/plants11151976