期刊
BASIC AND APPLIED ECOLOGY
卷 36, 期 -, 页码 26-33出版社
ELSEVIER GMBH
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2019.03.005
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Agriculture; Bees; Fertiliser regimes; Pollination; Vicia faba
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资金
- 7th Framework Programme of the European Union (EU) FP7, LIBERATION Project [311781]
- Polish Ministry of Science and Education [3406/7]
Pollinators provide vital ecosystem services across croplands, yet simultaneously they are influenced by agricultural practices. Nevertheless, only a few studies have explored the potential interactions between soil fertilisers and pollinators. The aim of the current study, which was carried out in Poland in 2015, was to investigate the effect of different fertiliser regimes on bumblebee flower visitation rate and seed yield in crops of the field bean (Vicia faba L.). Our results show that the number of bumblebee visits may be affected by the choice of crop fertiliser. We detected differences in bumblebee number between fertiliser treatments. The organic fertiliser (manure) treatment resulted in the highest bumblebee visitation, although this did not differ significantly from NP, no fertiliser and NK treatments. On the other hand, we observed lower numbers of bumblebees on field bean plots treated with N, NPK, and PK inorganic fertilisers. Manure application also boosted plant height and resulted in a high yield similar to other balanced fertilisers (NPK and PK). Therefore, manure was the only fertiliser that resulted in a high field bean yield and at the same time attracted the main pollinators of the crop. Thus, we suggest that appropriate management practices influence both plant growth and also pollination services and we show that modern agriculture can make compromise between effectiveness and nature conservation. (C) 2019 Published by Elsevier GmbH on behalf of Gesellschaft fur Okologie.
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