ReviewEmerging topics in life sciences2020
Nocturnal pollination: an overlooked ecosystem service vulnerable to environmental change.
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- Pollination Across the Diel Cycle: A Global Meta-Analysis.Ecology letters · 2025Pooled it
- Attraction of nocturnal scarab beetles by unusual floral volatiles in a Banksia (Proteaceae) with functionally diverse pollinators.Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2026Article
- Chlorophyll a fluorescence and biochemical analyses to probe the impacts of artificial light at night on certain ornamental plant species.Photochemical & photobiological sciences : Official journal of the European Photochemistry Association and the European Society for Photobiology · 2026Article
- Generalization for both diurnal and nocturnal pollination in the mass-flowering desert geophyte Nerine laticoma (Amaryllidaceae).Plant biology (Stuttgart, Germany) · 2026Article
- Mitigating light pollution impacts on arthropods based on light-emitting diode properties.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2026Article
- Exploring nocturnal soundscapes in an Australian open forest system using acoustic indices.PloS one · 2026Article
- Floral and pollination biology of dragon fruit reveals strategies for enhancing productivity through pollination management and reproductive window extension.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Living Away From Specialized Pollinators: The Pollination System ofEcology and evolution · 2025Article
- Global Biases in Ecology and Conservation Research: Insight From Pollinator Studies.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Potential Regional Pollination Services ofPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Pulsed artificial light at night alters moth flight behaviour.Biology letters · 2024Article
- Multi-method approach to assessing the floral-visiting insect assemblage of rare, abophilous plantEcology and evolution · 2024Article
- We know very little about pollination in theEcology and evolution · 2024Review
- Climate is changing, are European bats too? A multispecies analysis of trends in body size.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Mitigating the impacts of street lighting on biodiversity and ecosystem functioning.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Low heat tolerance and high desiccation resistance in nocturnal bees and the implications for nocturnal pollination under climate change.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Marvellous moths! pollen deposition rate of bramble (Rubus futicosus L. agg.) is greater at night than day.PloS one · 2023Article
- Colour vision in nocturnal insects.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Review
- Pollinator biological traits and ecological interactions mediate the impacts of mosquito-targeting malathion application.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Mediterranean moth diversity is sensitive to increasing temperatures and drought under climate change.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Existing assessments of the ecosystem service of pollination have been largely restricted to diurnal insects, with a particular focus on generalist foragers such as wild and honey bees. As knowledge of how these plant-pollinator systems function, their relevance to food security and biodiversity, and the fragility of these mutually beneficial interactions increases, attention is diverting to other, less well-studied pollinator groups. One such group are those that forage at night. In this review, we document evidence that nocturnal species are providers of pollination services (including pollination of economically valuable and culturally important crops, as well as wild plants of conservation concern), but highlight how little is known about the scale of such services. We discuss the primary mechanisms involved in night-time communication between plants and insect pollen-vectors, including floral scent, visual cues (and associated specialized visual systems), and thermogenic sensitivity (associated with thermogenic flowers). We highlight that these mechanisms are vulnerable to direct and indirect disruption by a range of anthropogenic drivers of environmental change, including air and soil pollution, artificial light at night, and climate change. Lastly, we highlight a number of directions for future research that will be important if nocturnal pollination services are to be fully understood and ultimately conserved.
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