TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hornick, Thomas
A1  - Richter, Anett
A1  - Harpole, William Stanley
A1  - Bastl, Maximilian
A1  - Bohlmann, Stephanie
A1  - Bonn, Aletta
A1  - Bumberger, Jan
A1  - Dietrich, Peter
A1  - Gemeinholzer, Birgit
A1  - Grote, Rüdiger
A1  - Heinold, Bernd
A1  - Keller, Alexander
A1  - Luttkus, Marie L.
A1  - Mäder, Patrick
A1  - Motivans Švara, Elena
A1  - Passonneau, Sarah
A1  - Punyasena, Surangi W.
A1  - Rakosy, Demetra
A1  - Richter, Ronny
A1  - Sickel, Wiebke
A1  - Steffan‐Dewenter, Ingolf
A1  - Theodorou, Panagiotis
A1  - Treudler, Regina
A1  - Werchan, Barbora
A1  - Werchan, Matthias
A1  - Wolke, Ralf
A1  - Dunker, Susanne
T1  - An integrative environmental pollen diversity assessment and its importance for the Sustainable Development Goals
JF  - Plants, People, Planet
N2  - Societal Impact Statement
Pollen relates to many aspects of human and environmental health, which protection and improvement are endorsed by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. By highlighting these connections in the frame of current challenges in monitoring and research, we discuss the need of more integrative and multidisciplinary pollen research related to societal needs, improving health of humans and our ecosystems for a sustainable future.
Summary
Pollen is at once intimately part of the reproductive cycle of seed plants and simultaneously highly relevant for the environment (pollinators, vector for nutrients, or organisms), people (food safety and health), and climate (cloud condensation nuclei and climate reconstruction). We provide an interdisciplinary perspective on the many and connected roles of pollen to foster a better integration of the currently disparate fields of pollen research, which would benefit from the sharing of general knowledge, technical advancements, or data processing solutions. We propose a more interdisciplinary and holistic research approach that encompasses total environmental pollen diversity (ePD) (wind and animal and occasionally water distributed pollen) at multiple levels of diversity (genotypic, phenotypic, physiological, chemical, and functional) across space and time. This interdisciplinary approach holds the potential to contribute to pressing human issues, including addressing United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, fostering social and political awareness of these tiny yet important and fascinating particles.
KW  - aerobiology
KW  - allergy
KW  - diversity
KW  - environmental monitoring
KW  - food safety
KW  - paleoecology
KW  - palynology
KW  - pollination
Y1  - 2022
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-276487
VL  - 4
IS  - 2
SP  - 110
EP  - 121
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Stein, Katharina
A1  - Coulibaly, Drissa
A1  - Balima, Larba Hubert
A1  - Goetze, Dethardt
A1  - Linsenmair, Karl Eduard
A1  - Porembski, Stefan
A1  - Stenchly, Kathrin
A1  - Theodorou, Panagiotis
T1  - Plant-pollinator networks in savannas of Burkina Faso, West Africa
JF  - Diversity
N2  - West African savannas are severely threatened with intensified land use and increasing degradation. Bees are important for terrestrial biodiversity as they provide native plant species with pollination services. However, little information is available regarding their mutualistic interactions with woody plant species. In the first network study from sub-Saharan West Africa, we investigated the effects of land-use intensity and climatic seasonality on plant–bee communities and their interaction networks. In total, we recorded 5686 interactions between 53 flowering woody plant species and 100 bee species. Bee-species richness and the number of interactions were higher in the low compared to medium and high land-use intensity sites. Bee- and plant-species richness and the number of interactions were higher in the dry compared to the rainy season. Plant–bee visitation networks were not strongly affected by land-use intensity; however, climatic seasonality had a strong effect on network architecture. Null-model corrected connectance and nestedness were higher in the dry compared to the rainy season. In addition, network specialization and null-model corrected modularity were lower in the dry compared to the rainy season. Our results suggest that in our study region, seasonal effects on mutualistic network architecture are more pronounced compared to land-use change effects. Nonetheless, the decrease in bee-species richness and the number of plant–bee interactions with an increase in land-use intensity highlights the importance of savanna conservation for maintaining bee diversity and the concomitant provision of ecosystem services.
KW  - bees
KW  - community composition
KW  - connectance
KW  - land-use intensity
KW  - modularity
KW  - mutualism
KW  - number of interactions
KW  - seasonality
KW  - woody plant richness
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-220157
SN  - 1424-2818
VL  - 13
IS  - 1
ER  -