A5063741040- Plant and animal studies
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Insect and Pesticide Research
- Plant Parasitism and Resistance
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Urban Green Space and Health
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
2015-2023
Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
2014-2023
Leipzig University
2014
Luther University
2014
Abstract Urbanisation is an important global driver of biodiversity change, negatively impacting some species groups whilst providing opportunities for others. Yet its impact on ecosystem services poorly investigated. Here, using a replicated experimental design, we test how Central European cities flying insects and the service pollination. City sites have lower insect richness, particularly Diptera Lepidoptera, than neighbouring rural sites. In contrast, Hymenoptera, especially bees, show...
Urbanization is considered a global threat to biodiversity; the growth of cities results in an increase impervious surfaces, soil and air pollution, fragmentation natural vegetation invasion non-native species, along with numerous environmental changes, including heat island phenomenon. The combination these effects constitutes challenge for both survival persistence many native while also imposing altered selective regimes. Here, using 110 314 single nucleotide polymorphisms generated by...
Abstract Bees and flowering plants are two closely interacting groups of organisms. Habitat loss fragmentation associated with urbanisation major threats to both partners. Yet how why bee floral richness diversity co-vary within the urban landscape remain unclear. Here, we sampled bees in green spaces investigate plant species richness, their phylogenetic pollination-relevant functional trait influence each other response fragmentation. As expected, abundance were positively related body...
Ecuador belongs to the megadiverse countries of world. However, high diversity in species, ecosystems and their services are under threat by land use changes, invasive overexploitation, pollution climate change. There is a need monitor, manage, protect improve biodiversity ecosystem (BES) Ecuador; however, marginally represented international policy-science interface for protection BES. We analyzed 266 peer-reviewed papers that were published between 2000 2020 assess current impact human...
Adaptation is evolution in response to natural selection. Hence, an adaptation expected originate simultaneously with the acquisition of a particular selective environment. Here we test whether long legs evolve oil-collecting Rediviva bees when they come under selection by long-spurred, oil-secreting flowers. To quantify environment, drew large network interactions between species and plant species. The environment each bee was summarized as average spur length interacting weighted...
Adaptation to local host plants may impact a pollinator’s population genetic structure by reducing gene flow and driving differentiation, representing an early stage of ecological speciation. South African Rediviva longimanus bees exhibit elongated forelegs, bizarre adaptation for collecting oil from floral spurs their Diascia hosts. Furthermore, R. foreleg length (FLL) differs significantly among populations, which has been hypothesised result selection imposed inter-population variation in...
We describe the complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of South African bee Rediviva intermixta, first mitogenomic data for a species belonging to basally branching family (Melittidae), and compare it with other published (Anthophila) mitogenomes. The mitogenome R. intermixta is 16 875 bp long, shows highest GC content (20.1%) all studied mitogenomes contains typical set 37 genes. order protein-coding rRNA genes highly conserved across Anthophila, but several tRNA rearrangements have...
Abstract Plant–pollinator interactions are often highly specialised, which may be a consequence of co‐evolution. Yet when plants and pollinators co‐evolve, it is not clear if this will also result in frequent cospeciation. Here, we investigate the mutual evolutionary history South African oil‐collecting Rediviva bees their Diascia host plants, elongated forelegs female have been suggested to coevolve with oil‐producing spurs hosts. After controlling for phylogenetic nonindependence, found...
Pollination and seed dispersal of plants by animals are key mutualistic processes for the conservation plant diversity ecosystem functioning. Although different frequently act as pollinators or dispersers, some species can provide both functions, so-called 'double mutualists', suggesting that evolution pollination may be linked. Here, we assess macroevolution behaviours in lizards (Lacertilia) applying comparative methods to a phylogeny comprising 2,838 species. We found flower visitation...