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标题：Insect Flower Visitors and their Role in Mangrove Pollination: A Study from East Coast of India
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作者：M. Panda ; N. Lele ; R.N. Samal 等
期刊名称：Journal of Tropical Forestry and Environment
印刷版ISSN：2235-9370
电子版ISSN：2235-9362
出版年度：2019
卷号：9
期号：2
页码：78-92
DOI：10.31357/jtfe.v9i2.4470
语种：English
出版社：University of Sri Jayewardenepura
摘要：Insects play a critical role in bringing successful pollination in angiosperms. Mangrove pollination is a poorly studied aspect from scientific community. This particular work investigated the insect visitors and other prospective of mangrove flowers. Twenty two species (i.e., 17 true and 5 mangrove associates) from Bhitarkanika Wildlife Sanctuary and Devi estuary of Odisha state (East coast of India) were selected; plants were pre-marked and visiting insects were recorded starting from 07.00 am to 13.00 pm during the flowering period of each species. Fifty three species of insects which belongs to seven orders, twenty five families and forty four genera were recorded. The highest, i.e., 14 sp. of insects had been recorded from Aegiceras corniculatum which is a small tree and riverine mangrove. Among insects, bees were found as the most common flower visitors (in 82% mangroves) and particularly “honey bee”, i.e., Apis dorsata visited to sixteen mangrove species (i.e., 73% mangroves). Bees, particularly Honeybee (A. dorsata), sweet bee (Lasioglossum sp.) and carpenter bee (Xylocopa pubescens) were actively engaged in pollen dispersal. Resident time and visitation rate supported that bees with highest visitation rate and low resident time were powerful candidates in bringing mangrove pollination. Wasps, beetles and butterflies act more to be foraging species. Facilitation of bee management and particularly supporting apiculture will help to increase pollination successes of rare and threatened mangroves at regional and global level. Author Biography M. Panda, Department of Botany, Banki (Autonomous) College, Odisha, Forestry and Environmental Science Downloads PDF Published 2019-12-11 How to Cite Panda, M., Lele, N., Samal, R., Dalai, D., Parida, S.,andMurthy, T. (2019). Insect Flower Visitors and their Role in Mangrove Pollination: A Study from East Coast of India. Journal of Tropical Forestry and Environment, 9(2). https://doi.org/10.31357/jtfe.v9i2.4470 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Issue Vol. 9 No. 2 (2019) Section Articles License The publisher retain the copyrights of contents published, and all open access articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License[U1], which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided that the original work is properly cited.
关键词：Mangrove; flower; pollination; bees; forest conservation