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2021
Evaluation of the importance of ornamental plants for pollinators in urban and suburban areas in Stuttgart, Germany
Evaluation of the importance of ornamental plants for pollinators in urban and suburban areas in Stuttgart, Germany
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Urban landscapes are often characterized by a wide range of diverse flowering plants consisting of native and exotic plants. These flower-rich habitats have proven to be particularly valuable for urban pollinating insects. However, the ability of ornamental plants in supporting urban pollinator communities is still not well documented. For this study, we established flower beds at 13 different urban testing sites, which were planted with identical sets of ornamental garden plants. The pollinator visitation patterns were then observed throughout the summer seasons. Over a two-year period, a total of 10,565 pollinators were recorded with wild bees (> 50%, excluding bumblebees) being the most abundant pollinator group. Our results revealed that (I) the assortment of ornamental plants was visited by a high number of urban pollinators for collecting pollen and nectar, and (II) the pollinator abundance and composition varied significantly within the tested ornamental plants. These differences occurred not only among plant species but to the same extent among cultivars, whereby the number of pollinators was positively correlated with number of flowering units per plant. By using a generalized linear mixed model (GLMM) and redundancy analysis (RDA) we identified further significant impacts of the two variables year and location on the insect pollinator abundance and richness. Despite of the local and yearly variations, our approach provided a good and field-applicable method to evaluate the pollinator friendliness in ornamental plants. Such tools are urgently required to validate labels like ‘bee friendly’ or ‘pollinator friendly’ used by plant breeding companies.
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Urban ecosystems, 24 (2021), 811–825.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-020-01085-0.
ISSN: 1573-1642
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Marquardt, M., Kienbaum, L., Kretschmer, L. A., Penell, A., Schweikert, K., Ruttensperger, U., & Rosenkranz, P. (2021). Evaluation of the importance of ornamental plants for pollinators in urban and suburban areas in Stuttgart, Germany. Urban ecosystems, 24. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11252-020-01085-0
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@article{Marquardt2021,
url = {https://hohpublica.uni-hohenheim.de/handle/123456789/16300},
doi = {10.1007/s11252-020-01085-0},
author = {Marquardt, Melanie and Kienbaum, Lydia and Kretschmer, Lea Annina et al.},
title = {Evaluation of the importance of ornamental plants for pollinators in urban and suburban areas in Stuttgart, Germany},
journal = {Urban ecosystems},
year = {2021},
volume = {24},
}