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Using Matching Traits to Study the Impacts of Land-Use Intensification on Plant-Pollinator Interactions in European Grasslands: A Review

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INSECTS
卷 12, 期 8, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/insects12080680

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pollination function; grasslands; agricultural practices; functional trait; effect trait; plant-pollinator interaction network; floral traits; pollinating insect traits

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  1. French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation
  2. Grand Est region of France
  3. INRA

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Permanent grasslands are important habitats for many plant and animal species, including pollinating insects that provide various ecosystem services. A global crisis in pollination ecosystem service has been highlighted in recent decades, partly due to land-use intensification. However, the underlying mechanisms of land-use intensification that affect plant-pollinator interactions and pollination at the grassland scale remain understudied.
Simple Summary Permanent grasslands are main habitats for many plant species and pollinators. Their destruction as well as their intensification has a major impact on plant and pollinator biodiversity, which has a cascading effect on pollination. However, we lack an understanding of these effects, thereby limiting our ability to predict them. In this review, we synthesised the literature on the mechanisms behind this cascade to provide new insights into the relationship between land-use intensification and pollination. By matching functional traits that mediate the relationship between the two trophic levels, we identified major knowledge gaps about how land-use intensification affects plant-pollinator interactions and how it favours plants with generalised floral traits, which are likely harmful to pollination. Permanent grasslands are suitable habitats for many plant and animal species, among which are pollinating insects that provide a wide range of ecosystem services. A global crisis in pollination ecosystem service has been highlighted in recent decades, partly the result of land-use intensification. At the grassland scale, however, the underlying mechanisms of land-use intensification that affect plant-pollinator interactions and pollination remain understudied. In this review, we first synthesise the literature to provide new insights into the relationships between land-use intensification and pollination by using matching community and interaction traits. We then identify knowledge gaps and summarise how land-use intensification of grassland influences floral traits that may in turn be associated with modifications to pollinator matching traits. Last, we summarise how these modifications may affect pollination function on permanent grasslands. Overall, land-use intensification may lead to a shift in flower colour, a decrease in mean nectar tube depth and a decrease in reward production and pollen quality at the community level. This, in turn, may generate a decrease in pollinator mouthparts length and body size, that may favour pollinators that require a low amount of floral reward. We found no study citing the effect of land-use intensification on volatile organic compounds emitted by flowers despite the importance of these molecules in pollinator community composition. Overall, our review highlighted major knowledge gaps about the effects of land-use intensification on plant-pollinator interactions, and suggests that land-use intensification could favour plants with generalised floral traits that adversely affect pollination.

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