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and pollination services. However, context and species-specificresponses makeit challenging to draw general conclusions about the most important componentsof landscapes that support diverse and abundant pollinator communities.2. In this study, we took a functional-traitsapproach to community assembly andtested the hypothesis that landscape properties act most strongly on pollinatorsindirectly, through their influence on flowering plant communities. Using plantand pollinator data from 96 landscapes in Britain, we tested the associations betweenplant and pollinator communities and local environmental factors, such ashabitat cover and configuration, using path analysis based on Mantel and partialMantel statistics.3. When all pollinators were considered, we found that the environmental factorshad stronger links to the composition of flowering plant communities than to thecomposition of pollinator communities. Further, the flowering plant communitywas strongly linked to the pollinator community suggesting a mediating role betweenland use and pollinators. When separating the pollinator community intotaxonomic groups, we found the same result for hoverflies, but wild bees werelinked to both environmental factors and flowering plants.
Author(s): Gillespie MAK, Baude M, Biesmeijer J, Boatman N, Budge GE, Crowe A, Davies N, Evans R, Memmott J, Morton RD, Moss E, Potts SG, Roberts SPM, Rowland C, Senapathi D, Smart SM, Wood C, Kunin WE
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Functional Ecology
Year: 2024
Pages: Epub ahead of print
Online publication date: 01/10/2024
Acceptance date: 04/09/2024
Date deposited: 03/10/2024
ISSN (print): 0269-8463
ISSN (electronic): 1365-2435
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2435.14666
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2435.14666
Data Access Statement: The species and environmental data that supports the findings of this study are available from the Dryad Digital Repository: https://doi. org/10.5061/dryad.stqjq2cbx (Gillespie et al., 2024). The beetraits data are available on request from Stuart Roberts. The hov-erfly traits data are available on request from https:// pollinators.ie/recor d- pollinators/hover flies/ syrph- the-net/. The plant traits dataare publicly available via the TRY database: https:// www.try- db.org/TryWeb/Home.php.
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