• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제42권4호
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• pp.265-271
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• 2018

Background: Temperature-driven variation in pollinator assemblage and activity are important information, especially at high altitudes, where rising temperature trends exceed global levels. Temporal patterns of pollinators in a flowering season can be used as a proxy to predict the changes of high-altitude plants' mutualistic relationships. We observed a spring temperature change in one population of a high-altitude endemic species, Megaleranthis saniculifolia on Mt. Sobaeksan, and related it to pollinator assemblage and activity changes. Methods: This study was conducted at two sites, each facing different slopes (NE and NW), for two times in the spring of 2013 (early-flowering, April 27-28, vs. mid-flowering, May 7-8, 2013). We confirmed that the two sites were comparable in snowmelt regime, composition of flowering plants, and flower density, which could affect pollinator assemblage and activity. Pollinator assemblage and activity were investigated at three quadrats ($1m^2$ with 5-m distance) for each site, covering a total of 840 min observation for each site. We analyzed correlations between the temperature and visitation frequency. Results: Twelve pollinator species belonging to four orders were observed for M. saniculifolia at both sites during early- and mid-flowering times. Diptera (five species) and hymenopteran species (four species) were the most abundant pollinators. Pollinator richness increased at both sites toward the mid-flowering time [early vs. mid = 7 (NE) and 3 (NW) vs. 9 (NE) and 5 (NW)]. Compared to the early-flowering time, visitation frequency showed a fourfold increase in the mid-flowering time. With the progression of spring, major pollinators changed from flies to bees. Upon using data pooled over both sites and flowering times, hourly visitation frequency was strongly positively correlated with hourly mean air temperature. Conclusions: The spring temperature change over a relatively brief flowering period of M. saniculifolia at high altitudes can alter pollinator assemblages through pollinator dominance and visitation frequency changes. Thus, this study emphasizes information on intra- and inter-annual variations in the mutualistic relationship between pollinators and M. saniculifolia to further assess the warming impacts on M. saniculifolia's reproductive fitness.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제48권3호
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• pp.256-262
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• 2024

Background: Research investigating the relationship between latitude and network specialization plant-pollinator networks present conflicting results. While some studies indicate a positive link between latitude and network specialization, particularly in tropical regions, others suggest contradictory trends, with specialization declining towards lower latitudes. These studies underscore the intricate nature of ecological specialization in plant-pollinator networks and the need for further studies in this field to gain a more nuanced understanding of the underlying mechanisms driving these patterns. In this study, we explore the relationship between plant-pollinator network specialization and latitude using a global dataset comprising 93 plant-pollinator networks. Results: Our analysis revealed a significant relationship with latitude mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, particularly concerning metrics such as connectance and nestedness. However, notably, we found no association with H2, a metric immune to the size, shape, or sampling effects of the network and considered highly suitable for measuring network specialization in both Hemispheres. Conclusions: The absence of latitudinal trends in network specialization (H2) in both Hemispheres in this study imply that the mutual attraction between plants and pollinators remains relatively stable across various latitudes. Our comparison with prior research highlights the diversity of conclusions regarding how latitude influences plant-pollinator networks. While our results are consistent with certain studies, indicating no direct impact of latitude on network specialization, discrepancies persist.

• Proceedings of the National Institute of Ecology of the Republic of Korea
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.149-153
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• 2022

The degree distribution of the plant-pollinator network was identified by analyzing the data in the ecosystem and reproduced by a model of the growing bipartite mutualistic networks. The degree distribution of pollinator shows power law or stretched exponential distribution, while plant usually shows stretched exponential distribution. In the growth model, the plant and the pollinator are selected with probability P_p and P_A=1-P_p, respectively. The number of incoming links for the plant and the pollinator is l_p and l_A, respectively. The probability that the link of the plant selects the pollinator of the existing network given as $A_{k_i}=k^{{\lambda}_A}_i/{\sum}_i\;k^{{\lambda}_A}_i$, and the probability that the pollinator selects the plant is $P_{k_i}=k^{{\lambda}_p}_i/{\sum}_i\;k^{{\lambda}_p}_i$. When the nonlinear growth index is 𝛌_X=1 (X=A or P), the degree distribution follows a power law, and if 0≤𝛌_X<1, the degree distribution follows a stretched exponential distribution. The cumulative degree distributions of plants and pollinators of 14 empirical plant-pollinators included in Interaction Web Database were calculated. A set of parameters (P_A,P_P,l_A,l_P) that reproduces these cumulative degree distributions and a growth index 𝛌_X (X=A or P) were obtained. We found that animal takes very heterogenous connections, whereas plant takes a more flexible connection network.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제46권2호
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• pp.126-135
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• 2022

Background: Pollinators are important ecological elements due to their role in the maintenance of ecosystem health, wild plant reproduction, crop production and food security. The pollinator-plant interaction supports the preservation of plant and animal populations and it also improves the yield in pollination dependent crops. Having knowledge about the plant-pollinator interaction is necessary for development of pesticide risk assessment of pollinators and conservation of endangering species. Results: Traditional methods to discover the relatedness of insects and plants are based on tracing the visiting pollinators by field observations as well as palynology. These methods are time-consuming and needs expert taxonomists to identify different groups of pollinators such as insects or identify flowering plants through palynology. With pace of technology, using molecular methods become popular in identification and classification of organisms. DNA metabarcoding, which is the combination of DNA barcoding and high throughput sequencing, can be applied as an alternative method in identification of mixed origin environmental samples such as pollen loads attached to the body of insects and has been used in DNA-based discovery of plant-pollinator relationship. Conclusions: DNA metabarcoding is practical for plant-pollinator studies, however, lack of reference sequence in online databases, taxonomic resolution, universality of primers are the most crucial limitations. Using multiple molecular markers is preferable due to the limitations of developed universal primers, which improves taxa richness and taxonomic resolution of the studied community.

• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제27권1호
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• pp.22-29
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• 2013

우리나라에 생육하는 꿀풀과와 산형과 식물들의 화기구조와 화분매개충의 상호관련성을 밝히고자, 2010년 4월부터 2012년 8월까지 꽃을 찾는 곤충들을 조사였으며 꽃들의 화기구조를 관찰하였다. 꿀풀과 식물을 찾는 벌목 곤충의 방화빈도 등급의 합이 21, 나비목 곤충들이 16의 높은 방화빈도를 보였다. 꽃무지과를 비롯한 딱정벌레목과 꽃등에를 비롯한 파리목 곤충들의 방화빈도 등급의 합은 1로 매우 낮았다. 산형과 식물을 찾는 파리목 곤충의 방화빈도 등급의 합이 27, 벌목 곤충들이 24, 꽃무지를 비롯한 딱정벌레목 곤충들이 21, 그리고 나비목 곤충들의 방화빈도 등급의 합은 13으로 나타났다. 식물종에 따른 화분매개충의 방화빈도 등급 합은 산형과의 기름나물이 24로 가장 높았고, 다음으로 구릿대가 13으로 높았으며, 꽃이 작은 편인 꿀풀과의 꽃층층이꽃, 석잠풀, 오리방풀이 등이 방화빈도 등급 합이 2로 가장 낮았다. 곤충 분류군별 방화빈도에서는 벌목 곤충이 57, 파리목 곤충이 46으로 높았으며, 나비목과 딱정벌레목 곤충은 23으로 낮은 편이었다. 참당귀는 방화곤충이 17종으로 가장 많았고, 다음으로 배초향 15종, 꿀풀 13종, 기름나물 13종, 구릿대 11종의 순으로 낮아졌다. 꽃층층이꽃과 오리방풀에서는 각각 좀뒤영벌과 어리황뒤영벌 1종만이 방화하였다. 딱정벌레목과 파리목 곤충들은 꿀풀과 식물의 꽃 보다 산형과 식물의 꽃에 높은 방화빈도를 보였다. 파리목과 나비목 곤충들은 자주색에 비하여 백색의 꽃에 상대적으로 높은 방화빈도를 보였다. 이 연구로 국화과 식물의 화기구조와 화분 매개 곤충 간의 상리공생적 상호관계를 어느 정도 파악하였다.

• 식물분류학회지
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• 제52권4호
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• pp.207-213
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• 2022

An effective pollinator was investigated based on visiting insects to confirm the pollination mechanism of Impatiens furcillata Hemsl. (cheo-jin-mul-bong-seon), an annual herb that is also a species endemic to Korea that has hardly been studied in relation to pollination ecology. The insects that visited the group of I. furcillata studied here consisted of four orders, 11 families, and 16 species; Hymenoptera had seven species (43.8%), Lepidoptera had four (25.0%), Diptera four (25.0%), and Hemiptera one (6.2%). Visiting insects were divided into those that took only nectar, those that took nectar and pollen, and those that took neither. Insects that are effective for pollination are judged considering the length and body type of their mouth parts, and Amegilla florea Smith (huin-jul-beol) is judged to be the most effective pollinator in the survey area. As a result of observing pollination behavior, when visiting a flower, A. florea, which extended its glossa, approached the front, landed on a wing petal of I. furcillata, crawled into the flower tube, and then backed up and reversed its steps, with pollen adhered to its back. The findings here present basic information about species biology related to both I. furcillata and A. florea.

• 한국양봉학회지
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• 제34권2호
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• pp.141-147
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• 2019

Pollinators play important roles for crop production as well as maintenance of wild plants' reproduction. Pollinator dependency in Korean agriculture have increased, but the degradation of habitat quality pose significant threats to pollination in agroecosystem. Provisioning flower habitat is one of the major activities to increase pollinator abundance and richness. We tested the effect of flower habitat supplementation on the pollinator, pest and natural enemy abundance in pepper field. Results showed that Hymenopteran pollinators were more abundant in the pepper plots close to the flower habitat. Among natural enemies, the similar pattern from pollinators was observed to parasitoids in the family of Eulophidae, but not to those of Ichneumonidae. There were no statistically significant differences of insect pests like aphids and thrips, as well as pepper production among plots in the pepper field. Even limited spatial scale, this study showed supplementing the flowering plant habitat to the agricultural landscape could conserve and boost pollinators and natural enemies, and possibly resulting better fruit production by pollination service.

• Journal of Ecology and Environment
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• 제46권1호
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• pp.18-30
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• 2022

Background: Bees and flowering plants associations were initially began during the early Cretaceous, 120 million years ago. This coexistence has led to a mutual relationship where the plant serves as food and in return, the bee help them their reproduction. Animals pollinate about 75% of food crops worldwide, with bees as the world's primary pollinator. In general, bees rely on flower scents to locate blooming flowers as visual clue is limited and also their host plants from a distance. In this review, an attempt is made to collect some relevant 107 published papers from three scientific databases, Google Scholar, Scopus, and Web of Science database, covering the period from 1959 to 2021. Results: Flowering plants are well documented to actively emit volatile organic compounds (VOCs). However, only a few of them are important for eliciting behavioral responses in bees. In this review, fifty-three volatile organic compounds belonging to different class of compounds, mainly terpenoids, benzenoids, and volatile fatty acid derivatives, is compiled here from floral scents that are responsible for eliciting behavioral responses in bees. Bees generally use honest floral signals to locate their host plants with nectar and pollen-rich flowers. Thus, honest signaling mechanism plays a key role in maintaining mutualistic plant-pollinator associations. Conclusions: Considering the fact that floral scents are the primary attractants, understanding and identification of VOCs from floral scent in plant-pollinator networks are crucial to improve crop pollination. Interestingly, current advances in both VOCs scent gene identification and their biosynthetic pathways make it possible to manipulate particular VOCs in plant, and this eventually may lead to increase in crop productivity.

• 생물환경조절학회지
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.294-298
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• 2012

체리의 경우 유과기나 과실수확기에 비가 잦을 경우 각종 곰팡이에 의한 과실썩음병과 열과가 발생하여 고품질의 과실을 생산하기 어렵다. 따라서 우리나라와 같이 장마기가 있는 기후조건에서는 농약살포 횟수를 줄이고 고품질의 과실을 안정적으로 생산하기 위해서는 반드시 비가림 시설재배가 필요하다. 국내에서 체리의 개화시기는 4월 상 중순으로 개화기 저온에 의해 자연상태의 꿀벌을 통한 화분매개는 결실율이 불안정하며, 봄철에는 화분매개용 꿀벌 봉군을 구입하기가 어렵다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 최근 시설재배 방울토마토, 애호박 등에서 화분매개용으로 많이 이용되고 있는 서양뒤영벌을 비가림 재배 조건에서 꿀벌을 대신하여 체리에 대한 화분매개 곤충으로 이용코자 하였다. 방화활동력은 서양뒤영벌의 경우 한 꽃에 약 6초 정도 머물러 분당 11개 정도의 꽃을 방문하였고, 꿀벌의 경우 한 꽃에 약 15초씩 머물러 분당 4~5개 정도의 꽃을 방문하였다. 또한 결실율과 과실특성에 있어 두 벌 처리구 간에 통계적인 유의성은 없었다. 따라서 비가림 체리 재배에서 개화기에 화분매개용으로 꿀벌을 대신하여 서양뒤영벌을 이용하더라도 어떠한 부정적인 영향은 없었다.

• 한국환경생태학회지
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• 제26권2호
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• pp.200-209
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• 2012

우리나라에 생육하는 국화과 식물들의 화기구조와 화분매개충의 상호관련성을 밝히고자, 2010년 4월부터 2011년 10월까지 꽃을 찾는 곤충들을 조사였으며 꽃들의 화기구조를 관찰하였다. 나비목 곤충이 38, 꽃등에과를 비롯한 파리목 곤충의 방화빈도 등급의 합이 38, 벌목 곤충들이 36의 높은 방화빈도를 보였다. 꽃무지과를 비롯한 딱정벌레목의 방화빈도 등급의 합이 6으로 가장 낮았다. 주요 화분매개충은 벌목 13종(꿀벌과 11종, 개미과 2종), 나비목 29종(배추흰나비과 5종, 네발나비과 12종, 뱀눈나비과 3종, 팔랑나비과 3종, 부전나비과 2종, 왕나비과 1종 및 나방류 2종), 파리목 16종(기생파리과 1종, 꽃등에과 12종 및 집파리과 1종), 딱정벌레목 6종(꽃무지과 2종, 하늘소과 2종, 잎벌레과 1종 및 꽃벼룩과 1종) 등 65종으로 나타났다 개망초는 방화곤충이 31종으로 가장 많았고, 다음으로 등골나물이 15종, 까실쑥부쟁이가 13종 순으로 낮아졌다. 솜방망이, 씀바귀, 금불초, 지느러미엉겅퀴, 곰취, 단풍취, 수리취, 고려엉겅퀴, 이고들빼기 및 산국은 모두 방화곤충이 2종으로 매우 적었다. 나비목 곤충들은 황색이나 자주색에 비하여 백색의 꽃에 상대적으로 높은 방화빈도를 보였다. 이 연구로 국화과 식물의 화기구조와 화분 매개 곤충 간의 상리공생적 상호관계를 어느 정도 파악하였다.