Effect of semi-natural habitat patches on the pollinator assemblages of sunflower in an intensive agricultural landscape
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https://doi.org/10.56617/tl.3576Keywords:
landscape composition, bees, honeybee, Apis mellifera, edge effectAbstract
Pollination is a very important ecosystem service for agriculture, because it has a direct effect on the quantity and quality of the yield. However, the composition of the agricultural landscape, the amount and the distribution of the semi-natural habitat patches (SNH) can have an important effect on the structure and composition of the pollinator assemblages. The goal of our survey was to determine the effect of the adjacent SNH patches on the structure and composition of the pollinator assemblages of the studied sunflower fields. Our survey was conducted in the Jászság (Central Hungary). We studied 18 sunflower fields, with different types of SNH ('woody', 'herbaceous' and 'no SNH') in the neighbourhood. Pollinators of the 9 sunflower heads were collected in 5, 25, 50 and 75 m distance from the edge of the fields. Apis mellifera was the most dominant (83%) pollinator species, and the number of the detected taxons was very low. Our results suggest a visible, but not significant edge effect. On the other hand, the abundance of the pollinators was the highest on the fields with herbaceous SNH and the lowest on the fields without any SNH. Consequently, the presence of the adjacent semi- natural habitats can have a significant effect on the abundance of the pollinators on sunflower fields.
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