@pollinationut.bsky.social
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Pollination Ecology Workgroup at the University of Tartu is interested in the relationships between plants and the insects that pollinate them, studying their interactions from gene flow of plants to plant-pollinator interaction networks. pollination.ut.ee
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📢 Tune in next Wednesday at 2:00 PM CET (3:00 PM EET) to hear our group leader Tsipe Aavik talk about landscape genetics of plants.🌼
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Next #WilhelminenbergSeminarTalk: 22.10. | 2:00 PM with Tsipe Aavik / University of Tartu, Estonia @pollinationut.bsky.social
📍FIWI, 1160 Wien or online 👩‍💻
vetmeduni.ac.at/fiwi/seminar...
📢 Tip for students: The participation is recognised as an elective! (KV 128 804) @klivvvienna.bsky.social
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This study shows that for effective conservation of plant-pollinator networks a landscape wide approach is needed and that network characteristics are likely to depend less on patch size and connectivity, but rather on functional diversity and structural heterogeneity.
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These interactions contribute to the maintenance of network topologies like modularity and nestedness, even in small and isolated patches.
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‼️New article in @oikosjournal.bsky.social led by our post-doc Arne Devriese used metabarcoding to identify🌼🦋 plant pollinator interactions in fragmented dune slacks along the Belgian coast, and uncovered that pollinators commonly interact with resources in the surrounding landscape.
👉 doi.org/p89v
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‼️New article published in AoBP revealing how habitat loss and fragmentation affect heterostylous plants!
The study was led by Dr Marianne Kivastik from our workgroup and was part of her PhD thesis that she successfuly defended in spring.
Article 👉 doi.org/p63x
Thesis 👉 dspace.ut.ee/items/a8dd02...
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🌿 New article in @aobp.bsky.social addressing how habitat loss and fragmentation affect heterostylous plants, revealing consequences such as reduced population size, biased morph ratios, disrupted pollination, and shifts toward selfing.

👉 doi.org/p63x

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Primula veris is one the most studied heterostylous species and is often used as a model species representing the heterostyly system.
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Last week, we met in sunny☀️ Uppsala with our @biodiversaplus.bsky.social FuncNet project partners to discuss the work done and manuscript ideas and plan our coming fieldwork.
We also had a short trip to one of the Swedish project sites, where we found already first cowslip leaves and pollinators 🌻🐝