Providing for our pollinators: Investigating how urbanisation affects the ecology of flower-feeding insects

为我们的传粉者提供食物：调查城市化如何影响食花昆虫的生态

• 批准号: 2883596
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Sheffield
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2883596
• 关键词: Providing; our; pollinators; Investigating; how

Pollinating insects are declining due to habitat loss and climate change, threatening the pollination of crops and wild plants. Plant-pollinator interactions may be particularly vulnerable in cities, where urban greenspaces provide variable habitat and floral resources. However, the effects of urbanisation on pollinators remain poorly understood, particularly for important non-bee pollinators such as flies (Diptera) and moths (Lepidoptera). Bees, moths and flies have divergent ecological niches, making it important to understand how these different groups are threatened by urbanisation.

由于栖息地丧失和气候变化，授粉昆虫正在减少，威胁着农作物和野生植物的授粉。植物与传粉媒介的相互作用在城市中可能特别脆弱，因为城市绿地提供了可变的栖息地和花卉资源。然而，城市化对传粉媒介的影响仍然知之甚少，特别是对于重要的非蜜蜂传粉媒介，如苍蝇（双翅目）和飞蛾（鳞翅目）。蜜蜂、飞蛾和苍蝇具有不同的生态位，因此了解这些不同群体如何受到城市化的威胁非常重要。