Landscape patterns and diversity of meadow plants and flower-visitors in a mountain landscape

The landscape ecology of pollination

“…This finding is congruent with other recent research indicating that landscape configuration could be particularly important for pollinators (Sabatino et al 2010;Hadley et al 2014;Kormann et al 2016;Hass et al 2018). Jones et al (2019) tested the basic principles of island biogeography (MacArthur and Wilson 1967) but with insect pollinators in a mountain meadow system (meadows were the 'islands'). They document remarkable interannual turnover in pollinator communities (with 688 species observed over the 7-year study), but little of the variation in species richness could be explained by landscape context.…”

“…Three articles in this special section (Jones et al 2019;Pfeiffer et al 2019;Miljanic et al 2018) moved beyond tests of landscape composition, to also examine the effects of landscape configuration on pollinators. This is of critical importance, because if such configuration effects are revealed, it suggests a path toward planning agricultural and natural landscapes to minimize the effect of pollinator habitat loss via changes to landscape pattern (Hadley and Betts 2012).…”

Distribution and pollination services of wild bees and hoverflies along an altitudinal gradient in mountain hay meadows

“…The present study gives thus insights into promising future directions of conservation efforts for highly diverse mountainous grassland systems (Jones et al, 2018), especially since responses to altitude were similar among taxa in the bee-fly assemblages in mountain hay meadows.…”

Synergistically positive effects of brick walls and farmlands on Anthophora waltoni populations

“…The vast majority of studies focused on the relationship between the current landscape factors and bee diversity, without considering their persistent availabilities over time. Among those, however, few studies did explore the effect of temporal availability of floral resources, measured by seminatural habitats, on bees (Jones et al ., ); but the effect of temporal availability of nesting resources was not sufficiently explored (but see: Potts et al ., ; Simanonok & Burkle, ). Our study demonstrated the importance of temporal availabilities of two landscape factors on wild bee abundance, suggesting a need for persistent provisions of nesting resources and floral resources in managing wild bees.…”