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{"title":"Flower-rich road verges increase abundance of flower visitors in the surrounding landscape","authors":"Svenja Horstmann ,&nbsp;Lina Herbertsson ,&nbsp;Björn K. Klatt ,&nbsp;Alistair G. Auffret ,&nbsp;Erik Öckinger","doi":"10.1016/j.baae.2024.12.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.baae.2024.12.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Flower-visiting insects and the plants that depend on them are declining due to habitat loss and deterioration. Road verges, which often provide abundant floral resources, are gaining attention for their potential conservation value, as they can support a high abundance and diversity of flower-visiting insects. Thereby, flower-abundant road verges may benefit pollination in surrounding landscapes. However, the potential negative effect of traffic on this benefit remains unexplored. We addressed the research gap using potted wild strawberry plants (<em>Fragaria vesca</em>, variety ‘Rügen’), placed at 20 m and 80–100 m distance from road verges along roads with varying traffic intensity (around 100–5500 vehicles per day). We found that floral abundance in road verges enhanced the number of flower visitors to strawberry plants in nearby areas, regardless of the distance to the road verge. However, this positive effect was restricted by increasing traffic intensity and narrower road verge width. Despite similar numbers of flower visitors at both distances, the pollination success, measured as the number of developed achenes on each harvested strawberry, tended to be lower closer to the road verge than further away but was unrelated to flower density, traffic intensity and road verge width, which indicates potential differences in pollinator behaviour or in the pollen they carried. Our findings highlight the potential of flower-rich road verges to support the conservation of flower-visiting insects. However, we emphasise the need to consider road verge width and traffic intensity to ensure successful pollinator-friendly management.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8708,"journal":{"name":"Basic and Applied Ecology","volume":"82 ","pages":"Pages 59-65"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143179819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Nature-based solutions to increase sustainability and resilience of vineyard-dominated landscapes","authors":"Adrien Rusch","doi":"10.1016/j.baae.2024.12.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.baae.2024.12.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Vineyards are highly intensive systems very often located in biodiversity hotspots at the global scale. These ecosystems are now facing major environmental, agronomical and economic issues that challenge their sustainability. Based on multiple evidence, I illustrate here how biodiversity and several nature-based solutions across scales, from manipulating within-field plant communities to landscape-scale diversification, can provide benefits related to key societal challenges that vineyard socio-ecosystems are facing. These findings support the idea that biodiversity and ecosystem services play a key role in the functioning of these landscapes and that nature-based solutions offer a sustainable pathway for the future of vineyard agroecosystems. This literature review also highlights several gaps of knowledge that define a research agenda for nature-based solutions to strengthen multifunctionality of vineyard landscapes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8708,"journal":{"name":"Basic and Applied Ecology","volume":"82 ","pages":"Pages 70-78"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143179822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corrigendum to “Understanding ground-nesting habitat selection by waterbirds to prioritize invasive predator control on islands” [Basic and Applied Ecology Volume 78, August 2024, Pages 14-22]","authors":"Valeria Gómez-Silva ,&nbsp;Ramiro D. Crego ,&nbsp;Fabian M. Jaksic ,&nbsp;Gabriela Flores-Benner ,&nbsp;Elke Schüttler","doi":"10.1016/j.baae.2024.12.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.baae.2024.12.001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8708,"journal":{"name":"Basic and Applied Ecology","volume":"82 ","pages":"Page 58"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143179823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Corrigendum to “Drought response and urban-pollinator attractiveness of ornamental plant species” [Basic and Applied Ecology Volume 78, August 2024, Pages 1–13]","authors":"Margaux Quinanzoni,&nbsp;David Marcolet,&nbsp;Alice Michelot-Antalik","doi":"10.1016/j.baae.2024.12.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.baae.2024.12.002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8708,"journal":{"name":"Basic and Applied Ecology","volume":"82 ","pages":"Pages 66-69"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143179824","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Positive association between foliar silicon and extrafloral nectar in Vicia faba with application of methyl jasmonate","authors":"Chelsea Megan Gowton ,&nbsp;Dennis Chiu ,&nbsp;Isaac John Peetoom Heida ,&nbsp;Juli Carrillo","doi":"10.1016/j.baae.2024.11.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.baae.2024.11.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Plants have evolved direct and indirect defences against herbivores, which may come at a cost to other plant functions. Many plants can uptake and deposit large amounts of silicon within plant tissue, creating structures which can reduce herbivore performance. Silicon uptake can increase plant defenses against herbivores, but it has also been shown to trade-off with defensive phenolic compounds due to interference with jasmonic acid (JA) signaling. Additionally, plants can recruit predacious insects with extrafloral nectar (EFN), a sugar secretion not involved in pollination. It is currently unclear whether silicon uptake reduces other putative defences associated with the JA pathway, like EFN production. We used faba bean (<em>Vicia faba) to</em> identify potential trade-offs between silicon accumulation, phenolic content, and EFN production. We grew four genotypes of faba bean that varied in tannin content in control soil, or soil supplemented with silicon. After five weeks of growth, we exposed plants to either a buffer or methyl jasmonate (MeJA) solution to simulate an herbivory response. We measured EFN production at 24 and 48 hours after treatment, and harvested leaves to quantify silicon and phenolic content. We found silicon supplementation, but not MeJA treatment, increased foliar silicon concentration. Silicon supplementation did not affect foliar phenolic content or EFN sugar content. Silicon concentration (ppm) and MeJA treatment did not decrease foliar phenolic content or EFN sugar content. However, we found an interaction between silicon concentration (ppm) and MeJA treatment with EFN sugar content: across MeJA-treated plants, we detected a positive association between foliar silicon concentration and the amount of sugar (mg) in EFN. This study is the first to show MeJA can interact with leaf silicon concentration to alter EFN response, with the potential for cascading effects on other trophic levels.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8708,"journal":{"name":"Basic and Applied Ecology","volume":"82 ","pages":"Pages 11-17"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143178858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The effects of climate change on boreal plant-pollinator interactions are largely neglected by science","authors":"Joan Díaz-Calafat ,&nbsp;Adam Felton ,&nbsp;Erik Öckinger ,&nbsp;Pieter De Frenne ,&nbsp;Sara A.O. Cousins ,&nbsp;Per-Ola Hedwall","doi":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.01.014","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.01.014","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The boreal forest, one of the world's largest terrestrial biomes, is currently experiencing rapid climate-driven changes. This review synthesizes the limited research available on climate-change impacts on boreal plant-pollinator systems, revealing several knowledge gaps and shedding light on the vulnerabilities of boreal ecosystems. Using four complementary Web of Science searches, we found 5198 articles, of which only 11 were relevant. Our findings reveal that research on boreal plant-pollinator interactions is limited to date, as is our understanding of the insect fauna and pollination systems in the boreal region. Existing research often focuses on conspicuous plants, neglecting many other ecologically significant species. In addition, current studies often lack detailed data on pollinator species, which restricts our capacity to assess the vulnerability of specific plant-pollinator interactions to climate change. For example, most articles use plant reproductive success as a proxy for pollinator effectiveness without considering pollinator identity. This approach successfully assesses overall plant fitness, but overlooks changes to pollinator communities, such as those resulting from thermophilization, that may be relevant to projecting climate-change impacts. Moreover, pollinator taxon seems to affect the responses of plant reproduction to warming, with fly-pollinated plants appearing to be more resilient to temperature changes than bee-pollinated plants. Future research should prioritize foundational plant species and key pollinators, including flies, which are crucial to boreal pollination ecology. Understanding species-specific responses to warming is equally important for identifying which species and interactions may be most vulnerable to climate change. Studies should also examine the role of forest microclimates, as they may buffer boreal regions during broader climatic shifts, helping to mitigate the impacts of warming on these ecosystems. Addressing these gaps is essential for predicting climate impacts on boreal biodiversity and for informing conservation strategies that support biodiversity and benefit human communities reliant on boreal ecosystem services.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8708,"journal":{"name":"Basic and Applied Ecology","volume":"84 ","pages":"Pages 1-13"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143429150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Increase in disturbance-induced canopy gaps leads to reorganization of Central European bird communities","authors":"Anne Graser ,&nbsp;Claudia Frank ,&nbsp;Friederike Kunz ,&nbsp;Andreas Schuldt ,&nbsp;Cornelius Senf ,&nbsp;Christoph Sudfeldt ,&nbsp;Sven Trautmann ,&nbsp;Johannes Kamp","doi":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.01.013","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.01.013","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Natural and anthropogenic forest disturbances have profound impacts on biodiversity and habitats. Due to climate change and land-use legacies, natural disturbances in Central European forests – such as windthrow and insect outbreaks – have increased in recent decades. How those changes affect biodiversity has, however, rarely been quantified over larger spatial and longer temporal scales, mostly because concurrent datasets on biodiversity trends and forest disturbances are rare. Here, we investigate the effect of canopy gaps resulting from both natural and anthropogenic forest disturbance on bird species. We harnessed a unique dataset from a nation-wide bird monitoring scheme containing richness and abundance data from 927 plots monitored annually from 2005 to 2019 across all of Germany (153,014 observations). We related bird richness and abundance to disturbance (measured as the disturbance fraction, i.e. canopy gap area in relation to the total forest area per monitoring plot) derived from a 30 m-resolution forest disturbance layer based on Landsat satellite data. This allowed us to assess effects of young canopy gaps (disturbance &lt;5 years ago) and older canopy gaps (disturbance 5–10 years ago) on population trends of single species, combined trends across functional groups and bird diversity. Responses to disturbance were largely species- and trait-specific, with contrasting effects of different canopy gap age not necessarily accompanied by a change in overall bird diversity. Abundance trends of forest birds as well as short-distant migrants were negatively affected by young canopy gaps. Older canopy gaps led to more positive trends in shrub-nesting birds and short-distant migrants. We conclude that the recent increase in disturbance-induced canopy gaps across Central Europe has led to community reorganization, including species-specific changes in abundances. These changes might have important implications for priority-setting in species conservation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8708,"journal":{"name":"Basic and Applied Ecology","volume":"83 ","pages":"Pages 88-97"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143259638","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strategic selection of polliniser trees can improve fruit quality of lychee, a crop that exhibits mixed-mating","authors":"Stephen J. Trueman ,&nbsp;Joel Nichols ,&nbsp;Christopher J. Burwell ,&nbsp;Wiebke Kämper","doi":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.01.010","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.01.010","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Fruit trees are often planted in single-cultivar blocks that allow convenient orchard management. This planting design can reduce the opportunities for cross-pollination, decreasing fruit quality if many harvested fruit result from selfing rather than outcrossing. We aimed to: (1) identify flower visitors in a lychee orchard; (2) determine levels of selfing and outcrossing among two lychee cultivars (Kaimana and Kwai Mai Pink) at increasing distances from another cultivar in single-cultivar blocks; and (3) assess effects of pollen parentage on fruit size, skin colour, Brix, acidity, and mineral nutrient concentrations. The European honeybee and a rhiniid fly, <em>Stomorhina discolor</em>, were the most abundant flower visitors. Pollinators appeared to transport cross-pollen at similar levels among the different rows within the single-cultivar blocks. Kaimana trees produced a mixture of selfed and outcrossed fruit. Kwai Mai Pink trees produced more selfed fruit, with at least 75 % being self-fertilised and 19 % being cross-fertilised. Cross-pollination of Kaimana by Souey Tung or Fay Zee Siu increased fruit flesh mass by 27 % and 26 % compared with self-pollinated fruit, respectively, and whole-fruit mass by 20 % and 21 %, respectively. Cross-pollination of Kaimana by Souey Tung also provided the fruit with a small seed and a redder skin. Cross-pollination of Kwai Mai Pink by Wai Chee did not affect the fruit mass or colour compared with self-pollinated fruit. Cross-pollination did not significantly affect Brix, acidity, or mineral nutrient concentrations of Kaimana or Kwai Mai Pink fruit. The results demonstrate that these cultivars have a mixed mating system and that flower visitors transport cross-pollen across many orchard rows. The results also indicate that strategic selection and planting of polliniser cultivars, that provide an optimal pollen genotype, could lead to the production of heavier lychee fruit with improved skin colour and seed size.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8708,"journal":{"name":"Basic and Applied Ecology","volume":"83 ","pages":"Pages 80-87"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143098334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Metabarcoding the night sky: Monitoring landscape-scale insect diversity through bat diet","authors":"Cynthia Tobisch,&nbsp;Svenja Dege,&nbsp;Bernd Panassiti,&nbsp;Julian Treffler,&nbsp;Christoph Moning","doi":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.01.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.01.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Widespread declines of terrestrial insects are reported across habitats and are associated with drivers at the landscape scale. Current monitoring schemes survey insect communities mostly at local scales, while assessments of insect trends at the landscape scale are scarce. Insectivorous bats provide a feasible means to tackle this challenge, as they feed opportunistically on a wide variety of insects and other arthropods, while foraging in various habitats and thereby covering large distances between their roosts and hunting places. In this study, we analyzed the diet of a common European bat species (<em>Pipistrellus pipistrellus</em>) to investigate patterns in insect richness and composition at the landscape scale. We collected 24 fecal samples from 12 roosting places in Southern Germany and assessed insect richness and composition using DNA metabarcoding. We explored spatial and temporal variation in the diet of <em>P. pipistrellus</em> and quantified effects of landscape composition and configuration on insect species richness and composition using generalized linear models and non-metric multidimensional scaling. A total of 405 different insect and other arthropod species were identified in the fecal samples, with high proportions of Diptera (45 %), Lepidoptera (18 %), Coleoptera (13 %) and Hymenoptera (11 %), but also many other taxonomic groups. Species composition in the diet showed high variation in space and time, but was also associated with edge density and the proportion of grassland within 2 km radius of the roosts. Moreover, forest and grassland percentages within 2-km buffers around the roosts significantly increased species richness within the diet. Our study shows that genetic analysis of bat feces provides an efficient and promising approach to assess insect diversity patterns at the landscape level, and highlights the potential of widespread bat species for the monitoring of terrestrial insects at large scales.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8708,"journal":{"name":"Basic and Applied Ecology","volume":"83 ","pages":"Pages 128-135"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143377666","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Climate and soil factors drive the functional and phylogenetic assembly of Qinghai-Tibetan grassland communities via multiple paths","authors":"Xiaomei Kang ,&nbsp;Yanjun Liu ,&nbsp;Xinyang Wu ,&nbsp;Lijie Duan ,&nbsp;Jiachang Jiang ,&nbsp;Aoran Zhang ,&nbsp;Wei Qi","doi":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.01.011","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.baae.2025.01.011","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Elucidating the functional and phylogenetic community structures is essential for understanding coexistence of plant species and biodiversity within ecosystems. Despite their significance, the manner in which these structures change along environmental gradients has not been explored extensively. We estimated the phylogenetic diversity (PD) and community-weighted mean (CWM) and functional diversity (FD) values of four key functional traits in 558 grassland plots across the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP) and assessed their relationship to climate and soil factors. Our results demonstrate that climate has a more pronounced direct impact on community structures than soil properties. Moreover, the indirect effect of climate through soil conditions does not significantly contribute to the observed patterns in functional and phylogenetic diversity. Annual and seasonal temperature was a reliable predictor of functional structure of plant or organ size traits, especially CWM of leaf size and CWM and FD of plant height. CWM and FD of most leaf traits and PD were correlated positively with multiple precipitation factors and humidity but negatively with sunshine hours. We highlight the importance of temperature, local resource availability and environmental filtering in governing the functional and phylogenetic structures of the QTP grassland communities. These findings have the potential to improve our predictions of climate change impacts on plant community assembly.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":8708,"journal":{"name":"Basic and Applied Ecology","volume":"83 ","pages":"Pages 109-117"},"PeriodicalIF":3.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143350667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}