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Pollinators as Bioindicators of Ecosystem Functioning

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Pollination Biology

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Pollinators and pollination are crucial in the functioning of almost all terrestrial ecosystems and serve as valuable bioindicators of ecosystem health and can be used to monitor environmental stress brought about by introduced competitors, diseases, parasites, predators as well as by chemical and physical factors, particularly pesticides and habitat modification. Honeybees are useful as samplers of the environments because they indicate the chemical impairment of the environment they live in and have been used to assess atmospheric and other types of pollution. Pollinator guilds offer new means of assessing ecosystemic health because the species diversity and abundance relationship is changed from the log-normal standard expected from ecological principles and niche theory.

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Abrol, D.P. (2012). Pollinators as Bioindicators of Ecosystem Functioning. In: Pollination Biology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1942-2_16

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