ArticleJournal of chemical ecology2020
Pollination in the Anthropocene: a Moth Can Learn Ozone-Altered Floral Blends.
Article in Journal of chemical ecology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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- Air pollution disproportionately impairs beneficial invertebrates: a meta-analysis.Nature communications · 2024Pooled it
- Oxidizing pollutants can disrupt nestmate recognition in ants.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Yeast-derived volatiles orchestrate an insect-yeast mutualism with oriental armyworm moths.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Olfaction in the Anthropocene: NOScience (New York, N.Y.) · 2024Article
- Ozone exposure disrupts insect sexual communication.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Experience-dependent plasticity in the olfactory system ofFrontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2023Review
- Frontiers in quantifying wildlife behavioural responses to chemical pollution.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2022Review
- Plant age at the time of ozone exposure affects flowering patterns, biotic interactions and reproduction of wild mustard.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Moths sense but do not learn flower odors with their proboscis during flower investigation.The Journal of experimental biology · 2021Article
- Mosquito Host Seeking in 3D Using a Versatile Climate-Controlled Wind Tunnel System.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
Insect pollination is essential to many unmanaged and agricultural systems and as such is a key element in food production. However, floral scents that pollinating insects rely on to locate host plants may be altered by atmospheric oxidants, such as ozone, potentially making these cues less attractive or unrecognizable to foraging insects and decreasing pollinator efficacy. We demonstrate that levels of tropospheric ozone commonly found in many rural areas are sufficient to disrupt the innate attraction of the tobacco hawkmoth Manduca sexta to the odor of one of its preferred flowers, Nicotiana alata. However, we further find that visual navigation together with associative learning can offset this disruption. Foraging moths that initially find an ozone-altered floral scent unattractive can target an artificial flower using visual cues and associate the ozone-altered floral blend with a nectar reward. The ability to learn ozone-altered floral odors may enable pollinators to maintain communication with their co-evolutionary partners and reduce the negative impacts that anthropogenically elevated oxidants may have on plant-pollinator systems.
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