SynthesisProceedings. Biological sciences2025
How pollinator movement patterns emerge from the interaction between cognition and the environment.
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- How pollinator movement patterns emerge from the interaction between cognition and the environment.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Pooled it
- Short-term cold acclimation influences Rhyzopertha dominica (Coleoptera: Bostrichidae) mobility in different temperatures.Journal of insect science (Online) · 2026Article
- The Influence of Bee Movements on Patterns of Pollen Transfer between Plants: An Exploratory Model.Integrative and comparative biology · 2025Article
- Male bumblebees sustain mate-seeking by adjusting foraging to environmental conditions.Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
Nectar-feeding insects, birds and mammals develop complex foraging patterns, such as repetitive multi-destination routes known as 'traplines'. While this behaviour likely influences animals' foraging success and plant mating patterns, its drivers and prevalence across species and environments remain poorly understood. Through a systematic literature review, we show that pollinators display varying degrees of movement repetitiveness. Then, using a cognitively realistic agent-based model that we parametrized with data from bee foraging studies, we demonstrate how the interplay between cognition, competition, resource distribution and nectar renewal rate can generate various foraging patterns. Our model predicts greater movement repetitiveness when floral resources are scarce and spread in space, nectar renews quickly and competition is low. These findings challenge assumptions about the prevalence of strict traplining in behavioural studies and random pollinator movements in pollination models. We discuss how a deeper understanding of the diversity of pollinator movements can improve predictions of plant mating patterns to inform precision agriculture and conservation efforts.
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