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ArticleNature communications2024

Mixed effects of honey bees on pollination function in the Tibetan alpine grasslands.

Lin-Lin Wang, Zachary Y Huang, Wen-Fei Dai, Yong-Ping Yang, Yuan-Wen Duan

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Article in Nature communications, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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6 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Coinvasional disruptions to island pollinator networks.Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology · 2026
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  6. Examining Honeybee (Ecology and evolution · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Lin-Lin WangYunnan Key Laboratory of Crop Wild Relatives Omics, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research at Kunming, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China.ORCID 0000-0002-1651-5274
Zachary Y HuangDepartment of Entomology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, 48824, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5354-5547
Wen-Fei DaiYunnan Key Laboratory of Crop Wild Relatives Omics, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research at Kunming, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China.
Yong-Ping YangYunnan Key Laboratory of Crop Wild Relatives Omics, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research at Kunming, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China. yangyp@mail.kib.ac.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-0327-2664
Yuan-Wen DuanYunnan Key Laboratory of Crop Wild Relatives Omics, Germplasm Bank of Wild Species, Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research at Kunming, Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, Yunnan, 650201, China. duanyw@mail.kib.ac.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-8399-5116

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 32370229Postdoctoral Research Foundation of China (China Postdoctoral Research Foundation) 2021M693235
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The global expansion of domesticated plant and animal species has profoundly impacted biodiversity and ecosystem functions. However, the spillover effect of non-native honey bees from mass-flowering crops into adjacent natural vegetation on pollination function within plant communities remains unclear. To address this, we conduct field experiments to investigate the ecological impacts of honey bees (Apis mellifera) and a mass-flowering crop (Brassica rapa var. oleifera) on pollinator communities, plant-pollinator interactions, and reproductive performance of wild plants in 48 pollinator-limited alpine grasslands. Our findings indicate that the transition of dominant pollinators from flies to honey bees enhances visitation fidelity of pollinator species and reconfigures pollination interactions due to an increase in competition between honey bees and native pollinator species. Additionally, honey bees increase, decrease or do not alter plant reproductive success, depending on the plant species. Here, we report the mixed effects of honey bees on pollination function in pollinator-limited alpine grasslands.

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GrasslandPollinationAnimalsBeesBiodiversityBrassica rapaDipteraEcosystemFlowersReproductionTibet

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