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

Somme, Laurent; Moquet, Laura; Quinet, Muriel; Vanderplanck, Maryse; Michez, Denis; Lognay, Georges; Jacquemart, Anne-Laure

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

Somme, Laurent; Moquet, Laura; Quinet, Muriel et al.

2016 • In Urban Ecosystems, p. 1-13

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Urban biodiversity; Pollen; Nectar; Insect visitors; Bees

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[en] 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.

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Chemistry
Entomology & pest control
Phytobiology (plant sciences, forestry, mycology...)

Author, co-author :

Somme, Laurent

Moquet, Laura

Quinet, Muriel

Vanderplanck, Maryse ; University of Mons > Research Institute for Biosciences > Laboratory of Zoology

Michez, Denis

Lognay, Georges ; Université de Liège > Agronomie, Bio-ingénierie et Chimie (AgroBioChem) > Analyse, qual. et risques - Labo. de Chimie analytique

Jacquemart, Anne-Laure

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English

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

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18 April 2016

Journal title :

Urban Ecosystems

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1083-8155

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1573-1642

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Springer Science & Business Media B.V.

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1-13

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