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Food in a row: urban trees offer valuable floral resources to pollinating insects

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Somme, Laurent [UCL] Moquet, Laura [UCL] Quinet, Muriel [UCL] Vanderplanck, Maryse [Laboratory of Zoology, UMons] Michez, Denis [Laboratory of Zoology, UMons] Jacquemart, Anne-Laure [UCL]

Urbanization affects the availability and diversity of floral resources (pollen and/or nectar) for wild pollinating insects. For example, urban green areas are characterized by an abundance of ornamental plant species. Increasingly, trees are planted to improve the aesthetics of urban streets and parks. These urban trees might offer important floral resources to pollinating insects. To examine the suitability of urban trees as resources for pollinating insects, we investigated the chemical composition of pollen and nectar as well as the amount of nectar produced by the nine major insect-pollinated tree species planted in cities of Western Europe, namely Acer pseudoplatanus, Aesculus carnea, A. hippocastanum, Robinia pseudoacacia, Tilia cordata, T. x euchlora, T. x europaea, T. platyphyllos and T. tomentosa. The analyses revealed that globally the Tilia trees provide pollen with lower contents of polypeptides, amino acids and phytosterols compared with the other species. Urban tree flowers offer abundant nectar with relatively high sugar contents (0.16–1.28 mg/flower); sucrose was the predominant sugar in all nectars. The investigated tree species could therefore be considered in future city plantings.

Document type Article de périodique (Journal article) – Article de recherche
Access type Accès restreint
Publication date 2016
Language Anglais
Journal information "Urban Ecosystems" - Vol. 19, p. 1149-1161 (2016)
Peer reviewed yes
Publisher Springer New York LLC ((United States) New York)
issn 1083-8155
e-issn 1573-1642
Publication status Publié
Affiliation UCL - SST/ELI/ELIA - Agronomy
Keywords Urban biodiversity ; Pollen ; Nectar ; Insect visitors ; Bees
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Bibliographic reference Somme, Laurent ; Moquet, Laura ; Quinet, Muriel ; Vanderplanck, Maryse ; Michez, Denis ; et. al. Food in a row: urban trees offer valuable floral resources to pollinating insects. In: Urban Ecosystems, Vol. 19, p. 1149-1161 (2016)
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