Monitoring and Conservation of Pollinators and Their Ecological Interactions
A special issue of Insects (ISSN 2075-4450).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 April 2023) | Viewed by 6298
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Pollinators play a crucial role in both natural ecosystems and agroecosystems because most vascular plants require animal pollination for successful sexual reproduction. However, an alarming decline of various groups of pollinators, such as bees, flies, butterflies, etc., has been reported. There is, thus, an urgent need for improvements in the monitoring of pollinators to track changes of their abundance, community composition, and their interactions with mutualistic partners, i.e., plants, but also with their natural enemies, such as parasites and predators. Data from such monitoring projects are needed to inform measures aimed at the conservation of pollinators.
This Special Issue will include original research or review articles dealing with the monitoring of pollinator populations, communities, and their ecological interactions. Manuscripts reporting results of projects tracking the abundance of pollinator populations or plant–pollinator community structures over longer time periods, larger spatial scales, or along environmental gradients are encouraged. In addition, reports on the validation and application of new approaches, such as DNA metabarcoding, to track changes of resource use by pollinators, or the frequency of their interactions with parasites or predators are particularly welcome.
Dr. Jan Klečka
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plant–pollinator interactions
- pollinators
- pollination
- parasites
- DNA barcoding
- DNA metabarcoding
- population dynamics
- community structure
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