Study trip: Plant-pollinator interactions and pollination services in semi-natural grasslands - Details

Study trip: Plant-pollinator interactions and pollination services in semi-natural grasslands - Details

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Course name Study trip: Plant-pollinator interactions and pollination services in semi-natural grasslands
Semester SoSe 2024
Current number of participants 5
expected number of participants 6
Home institute Pflanzenökologie
participating institutes Räumliche Interaktionsökologie
Courses type Study trip in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Preliminary discussion Wednesday, 10.07.2024 09:00 - 18:00
First date Wednesday, 10.07.2024 09:00 - 18:00
Type/Form Part of the mandatory module "Botanical and zoological excursions"
Participants Felicitas Wolf will instruct up to six students in the field on the methods of setting up plots, collect and process interaction data of plant-pollinator interaction with hand on experience.

For questions please contact felicitas.wolf@idiv.de directly!

Current schedule
9 am - Meet up in Halle (somewhere easy to park – details following)
10/10:30 am - Arriving at field site
10:30am – 12pm - Explaining of methods and training
12-1 pm - Lunch break
1 pm- approx. 5pm - Real data collection
5pm-6pm - Drive back to Halle

Please bring your own food, enough to drink and good sun protection. There won’t be much shade on the field sites
Studiengänge (für) Master "Biodiversity Sciences".
Empty places may be filled with students of the Master "Biology"
ECTS points 0.5

Rooms and times

No room preference
Wednesday, 10.07.2024 09:00 - 18:00

Comment/Description

Semi-natural grasslands managed by extensive grazing or mowing play an important role for biodiversity, carbon sequestration, soil health and water regulation in Europe. However, this grassland has been degraded by intensive farming and conversion to arable land. The restoration of species-rich grasslands is crucial to ensure future ecosystem services. Restoration of species rich grasslands is therefore the aim of numerous nature conservation initiatives, but it remains unclear whether plant-centered restoration measures are effective in restoring other parts of the community, such as pollinators. To understand how successfully grassland communities reassemble during restoration, it is important not only to study how plant communities change over time, but also to include pollinator communities and their interactions with plants. The planned study near Halle/Magdeburg (Saxony-Anhalt) will investigate how plant and pollinator communities (Hymenoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera and Coleoptera), and and their interactions recover in the temporally differentially restored areas in relation to their ecosystem services. Using classical taxonomy and statistical methods, we will test (1) whether plant and pollinator communities develop similarly along a time gradient on restored areas and what role individual plant community traits (dominance patterns, diversity, composition) and landscape factors play for restoration success and (2) how the reestablishment of interaction networks between plants and pollinators depends on the recovery of plant and pollinator communities.

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