About this Research Topic
Pollination is undoubtedly one of the most important aspects of plant biology. Understanding the complexity of the relationship between plants and their pollinators is one of the most urgent challenges that researchers are facing today. Unraveling the mechanisms of how flowering plants solicit pollination, pollinators shape floral adaptations and how both these aspects are affected by global environmental changes is fundamental both for biodiversity conservation and agriculture management (food production). For modern conservation plans to be effective, there is a need to increasingly focus on protecting not only the population of a given species but also its biological nets ensuring species survival. Furthermore, while facing an unprecedented decline in pollinator abundance, which inevitably leads to a decrease in the efficiency of production of key crops for humanity, we must make an effort to understand the intricacies of the pollinator-plant-environment relationship.
The lack of knowledge about pollination strategies is a lack of basic information about plant species already known to science. Complementing them is a race with time as sites, populations, and species habitats have disappeared during the last decades at an unprecedented rate. Many species become extinct before they are scientifically known. This disappearance is not just a natural process, but above all the effect of the pace and scale of contemporary anthropopression - now not only local but also global. With the presented Research Topic, we are aiming to create an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of recent advances in pollination ecology, morphological studies on floral adaptations, and the evolution of plant-pollinator interactions in the changing environment.
All types of manuscripts are welcome, especially original research articles and review articles. The scope of the presented Research Topic covers, but is not limited to, the following themes:
• Evolution of floral traits
• Variation in reproductive systems across biogeographical and ecological gradients
• Adaptations of plant-pollinator interactions to environmental changes
• Pollination as an ecosystem service
The lack of knowledge about pollination strategies is a lack of basic information about plant species already known to science. Complementing them is a race with time as sites, populations, and species habitats have disappeared during the last decades at an unprecedented rate. Many species become extinct before they are scientifically known. This disappearance is not just a natural process, but above all the effect of the pace and scale of contemporary anthropopression - now not only local but also global. With the presented Research Topic, we are aiming to create an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of recent advances in pollination ecology, morphological studies on floral adaptations, and the evolution of plant-pollinator interactions in the changing environment.
All types of manuscripts are welcome, especially original research articles and review articles. The scope of the presented Research Topic covers, but is not limited to, the following themes:
• Evolution of floral traits
• Variation in reproductive systems across biogeographical and ecological gradients
• Adaptations of plant-pollinator interactions to environmental changes
• Pollination as an ecosystem service
Keywords: floral traits, plant-pollinator interactions, ecosystems, reproductive systems, pollination
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