TY - JOUR
T1 - A comprehensive catalogue of plant-pollinator interactions for Chile
AU - Muschett, Giselle
AU - Fontúrbel, Francisco E.
N1 - Funding Information:
We are indebted to Catalina González-Browne for sharing her literature compilation with us and provide a kickstart to this work. We are grateful to José Augusto Salim, Filipi Soares, António Saraiva, and the TDWG Biological Interaction Data group for their support during the different stages of the database development and field descriptions. We also thank Christian Jofré for taxonomic advice. This study was funded by the project NE/S011870/1, funded by the Chilean Agency of Research and Development (ANID).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/12
Y1 - 2022/12
N2 - Pollinators and pollination services provide invaluable ecosystem services to agriculture and contribute to the maintenance of biodiversity. In Chile, pollination contributes greatly to the diversity of native ecosystems and provides ecosystem services to crops, but local pollinator abundance and diversity, as well as plant-animal interactions, remain poorly understood. We compiled all available information from the published scientific literature on pollinators, flower visitors, and plant-pollinator interactions in Chile and found 120 publications from which we extracted 2619 records. Those records contain locality, habit type, and establishment means of 357 plant species from 83 families. Thus, we built a database compiling information on their pollinators and flower visitors, including information on 492 pollinator species from 97 families and 13 orders. Our database provides the first systematisation of information about pollinators and pollination in Chile. This country relies heavily on pollinators both for its agricultural industry and its unique and highly endemic biodiversity. This information can be reused in future studies and would contribute significantly to pollinator conservation strategies.
AB - Pollinators and pollination services provide invaluable ecosystem services to agriculture and contribute to the maintenance of biodiversity. In Chile, pollination contributes greatly to the diversity of native ecosystems and provides ecosystem services to crops, but local pollinator abundance and diversity, as well as plant-animal interactions, remain poorly understood. We compiled all available information from the published scientific literature on pollinators, flower visitors, and plant-pollinator interactions in Chile and found 120 publications from which we extracted 2619 records. Those records contain locality, habit type, and establishment means of 357 plant species from 83 families. Thus, we built a database compiling information on their pollinators and flower visitors, including information on 492 pollinator species from 97 families and 13 orders. Our database provides the first systematisation of information about pollinators and pollination in Chile. This country relies heavily on pollinators both for its agricultural industry and its unique and highly endemic biodiversity. This information can be reused in future studies and would contribute significantly to pollinator conservation strategies.
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U2 - 10.1038/s41597-022-01195-8
DO - 10.1038/s41597-022-01195-8
M3 - Article
C2 - 35277531
AN - SCOPUS:85126214289
VL - 9
JO - Scientific Data
JF - Scientific Data
SN - 2052-4463
IS - 1
M1 - 78
ER -