Diverse urban pollinators and where to find them

Silva, Victor H.D.; Gomes, Ingrid N.; Cardoso, João Custódio Fernandes; Bosenbecker, Camila; Silva, Jéssica Luiza S.; Cruz‐Neto, Oswaldo; Oliveira, Willams; Stewart, Alyssa B.; Lopes, Ariadna Valentina; Maruyama, Pietro Kiyoshi

doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2023.110036

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“…That is, recommended plant arrangements and typologies are likely to be quite different for temperate bees vs. tropical hummingbirds. We agree that the bias in the urban pollination literature to the global north is problematic [29,38], but specific recommendations for tropical cities (including bird and bat pollinators) are emerging as these systems are increasingly studied [38][39][40], and so parallel recommendations specific to other systems can become available over time.…”

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“…Interest in urbanization as both a potential threat and opportunity for pollinators has accelerated research in pollinator urban ecology, but the actual practice of supporting pollinator ecosystem services in cities has not been fully realized. Our ability to inform urban design has been improved by systematic reviews of urban pollinators and pollination ecology [18,19,25,29], and general recommendations on ways to support pollinators in urban settings [19,[30][31][32] and even assessments of pollinator ecosystem service value of green space in specific cities (from Grenada, Spain to Chicago, USA; [33,34]). However, there is inadequate specific and practical planning and management guidance directly linked to the research that supports it [19].…”

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How Informed Design Can Make a Difference: Supporting Insect Pollinators in Cities

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Pollinators are responsible for the reproduction of many plant and crop species and provide important diversity for food webs and cultural value. Despite the critical ecosystem services provided by pollinators, rapid pollinator declines are occurring in response to anthropogenic activities that cause the loss of suitable habitat. There is an opportunity for urban green space to support pollination ecosystem services locally and across the landscape. However, there is a lack of practical but evidence-based guidance on how urban green space can be designed effectively to provide floral resources and other habitat needs to a diverse assemblage of pollinators. We examine the existing pollinator research in this paper to address the following questions specific to insect pollinators in temperate urban settings: (1) Which pollinators can be the focus of efforts to increase pollinator ecosystem services in cities? (2) Which plants and what arrangements of plants are most attractive and supportive to urban pollinators? (3) What do urban pollinators need beyond floral resources? (4) How can the surrounding landscape inform where to prioritize new habitat creation within cities? Using these questions as a framework, we provide specific and informed management and planning recommendations that optimize pollinator ecosystem value in urban settings.

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How Informed Design Can Make a Difference: Supporting Insect Pollinators in Cities

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“…Green spaces are diverse in their application and composition; for example, some green spaces, such as public parks, are created for recreational purposes, while other green spaces, such as residential gardens, are created for landscape beautification (Zhao et al, 2010). Green spaces planned for preserving urban pollinator communities must be flower-rich and rich in other food sources (Silva et al, 2023) and additionally provide nesting resources and refuge from toxins including pesticides. Such green spaces may provide corridors between seminatural or natural areas.…”

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Can trait matching inform the design of pollinator‐friendly urban green spaces? A review and synthesis of the literature

Adedoja,

Mallinger

2024

Ecosphere

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Land use change is a major driver of pollinator decline and loss of pollination services. For plant and pollinator interactions to persist in rapidly changing urban systems, co‐occurring species must share matching traits, including phenological, morphological, and physiological traits. Thus, the knowledge of trait matching among interacting plants and pollinators can aid in the design of pollinator habitats and enhance the conservation value of urban green spaces, but this remains relatively understudied. Here, we review how trait matching facilitates the persistence of interactions and creation of new interactions in urban plant–pollinator networks. We highlight four major urban drivers facilitating the restructuring of plant–pollinator networks through species loss and gain in urban areas. We also show different pathways by which the matching of morphological, phenological, and physiological traits of interacting plants and pollinators is affected by urbanization. Furthermore, we show how the knowledge of functional traits can help to predict novel plant–pollinator interactions in urban environments, including those among exotic species. Finally, we show how the application of trait matching can aid management practices, facilitating the design and creation of sustainable green spaces that will accommodate functionally diverse pollinators and plants within the urban matrix.

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“…Unlike social bees, which benefit from the recognition of their ecological services and the different products they issue, which justify their domestication for millennia (Etxegarai-Legarreta & Sanchez-Famos, 2022), solitary bees, and their ecological functions are poorly known in the tropical region. In the Republic of Benin, as in many countries, they are sometimes considered as crop pests (Silva et al, 2023). Such a situation constitutes, apart from the climatic factors that are increasingly worsening for all biological entities, additional risks to their disappearance (LeBuhn & Vargas, 2021; Johnson et al, 2023).…”

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“…Such a situation constitutes, apart from the climatic factors that are increasingly worsening for all biological entities, additional risks to their disappearance (LeBuhn & Vargas, 2021; Johnson et al, 2023). Their maintenance on tourism sites constitutes a tangible contribution to their conservation (Silva et al, 2023).…”

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Buzzing Opportunities: Integrating Apitourism for Enriching the Tourism Heritage of the Republic of Benin

Amakpe,

Graaf,

Sinsin

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Tourism is the third most crucial socio-economic sector that generates income and employment in the Republic of Benin, where it occupies a prominent place in the country’s development policies. In response to the sustainable development requirements, tourists are worldwide more and more demanding on the quality and diversity of the services they receive. As such, strengthening the tourism sector requires environmentally and socio-economically sustainable innovations. Bees, with their great ecological and socio-economic functions, offer many facets which can be valued to support the well-diversified tourism heritage of the Republic of Benin. This review analyses existing tourism heritage, the diversity of bees and apicultural practices in the country and their susceptibility to apitourism development. Tourism promotion strategies based on the products and the ecological services of social, and solitary bee species were analysed per suggested ecotourism region of the country. The involved actors, their roles, and responsibilities, as well as the challenges that may emerge from integrating the bee sector into the tourism heritage of the country, were also analysed.

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Diverse urban pollinators and where to find them

Cited by 14 publications

References 85 publications

How Informed Design Can Make a Difference: Supporting Insect Pollinators in Cities

How Informed Design Can Make a Difference: Supporting Insect Pollinators in Cities

Can trait matching inform the design of pollinator‐friendly urban green spaces? A review and synthesis of the literature

Buzzing Opportunities: Integrating Apitourism for Enriching the Tourism Heritage of the Republic of Benin

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