Floral interventions enhance flower visitor communities and pollination services in moringa plantations
Floral interventions enhance flower visitor communities and pollination services in moringa plantations
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花卉干预措施增强了辣木种植园的花卉游客社区和授粉服务
DOI：
10.1111/1365-2664.14532
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发表时间：
2023
影响因子：
5.7
通讯作者：
Dhandapani S
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作者：
Dhandapani S
花粉是一种重要的生态系统服务，有助于全球粮食安全。辣木（Moringa oleifera）是一种重要的热带经济作物，主要由小农种植。在温带农业生态系统中种植花朵丰富的斑块以增强授粉的成熟方法适用于热带辣木系统。基于现有的证据，我们假设，花卉干预措施将提高花卉游客的多样性和丰富的作物，从而增加授粉服务和辣木产量和quality.We使用标准化的方法来调查辣木花卉游客和评估经济相关的措施作物产量的质量和数量。我们选择了24辣木领域在泰米尔纳德邦，印度，比较领域和没有花卉干预。在辣木上种植红果、木豆和金盏花、万寿菊，以提高传粉者对花资源的利用率。这些干预措施是与当地农民共同设计的，以确保为他们的社区带来额外的利益。我们发现，与对照田相比，花卉干预田的访花者丰度和物种丰富度显着增加（丰度增加50%，物种丰富度增加33%）。我们还发现，在有花卉干预的田地中，产生可收获果实的花朵百分比显着增加（30%）。产量和品质的生产效益与访花植物的丰度和物种丰富度呈显著正相关。我们的研究结果提供了明确的证据表明，以间作和间作的形式进行的花卉干预可以增强热带小农系统中的传粉者群落和服务。这些发现为农民提供了一个实用的管理选择，以加强花卉游客社区和授粉服务，这也可能为农民提供额外的共同利益，改善生计和可持续生产。
Pollination is a crucial ecosystem service contributing to global food security. Moringa (Moringa oleifera) is an economically important tropical crop, mostly cultivated by smallholder farmers.Well‐established approaches of planting flower‐rich patches used in temperate agroecosystems for pollination enhancement were adapted to tropical moringa systems. Based on existing evidence, we hypothesised that floral interventions would improve flower visitor diversity and abundance in the crop, thereby increasing pollination services and moringa yield and quality.We used standardised methods to survey flower visitors on moringa and assess economically relevant measures of crop yield quality and quantity. We selected 24 moringa fields in Tamil Nadu, India, to compare fields with and without floral interventions. We planted red gram,Cajanus cajanas a border crop, and marigold,Tagetes erectaas an intercrop on moringa fields to enhance floral resource availability for pollinators. These interventions were co‐designed with local farmers to ensure additional benefits to their community.We found that flower visitor abundance and species richness were significantly (50% for abundance and 33% for species richness) greater in fields with floral interventions compared with control fields. We also found that the percentage of flowers that resulted in harvestable fruits were significantly (30%) greater in fields with floral intervention. Production benefits in yield and quality were significantly positively correlated with the abundance and species richness of flower visitors.Synthesis and applications. Our results provide clear evidence that floral interventions in the form of intercropping and border cropping can enhance pollinator communities and services they provide in tropical smallholder systems. These findings underpin a practical management option for farmers to enhance flower visitor communities and pollination services, which can potentially also provide additional co‐benefits to farmers, improving livelihoods and sustainable production.
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DOI：
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DOI：
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发表时间：
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