Insects on Pollination Ecology

Dear Colleagues,

Pollination ecology is a rapidly growing field of research. Indeed, plant-pollinator interactions are not only the basis for the essential pollination function, but they also provide one of the most emblematic ecosystem services for humans.  However, several aspects of global changes together with new management practices are increasingly acknowledged as threats for pollinators. This Topical Collection will be devoted to the understanding of emerging aspects of these threats, including

• Climate-change-induced variations in the phenology of plant and pollinator interactions
• Landscape-artificialization-induced variations in the availability of nesting and floral resources, in particular in urban and agricultural areas
• Agricultural (ex: pesticide use, soil management, agri-environmental schemes) and other management practices (ex: honeybee hive management, plant communities management)

We aim to focus this Topical Collection on the impacts of these emerging threats to the composition and diversity of pollinator communities to plant-pollinator networks and to the provisioning of pollination services. This Topical Collection welcomes empirical, experimental, and theoretical approches on these topics. We would like to gather approaches on all types of pollinators in an as wide as possible range of environmental conditions and ecosystems.

Prof. Isabelle Dajoz
Collection Editor

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