Plant-Pollinator Networks in Savannas of Burkina Faso, West Africa
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Areas and Study Design
2.2. Sampling Flowering Plants, Bees and Their Interactions
2.3. Flower Visitation Networks
2.4. Statistical Analyses
3. Results
3.1. Plant and Bee Richness in Relation to Land-Use Intensity and Climatic Seasonality
3.2. Plant-Bee Network Architecture in Relation to Land-Use Intensity and Climatic Seasonality
4. Discussion
4.1. Bee and Flowering Plant Richness, Land-Use Intensity and Climatic Seasonality
4.2. Plant-Bee Network Architecture, Land-Use Intensity and Climatic Seasonality
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Stein, K.; Coulibaly, D.; Balima, L.H.; Goetze, D.; Linsenmair, K.E.; Porembski, S.; Stenchly, K.; Theodorou, P. Plant-Pollinator Networks in Savannas of Burkina Faso, West Africa. Diversity 2021, 13, 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/d13010001
Stein K, Coulibaly D, Balima LH, Goetze D, Linsenmair KE, Porembski S, Stenchly K, Theodorou P. Plant-Pollinator Networks in Savannas of Burkina Faso, West Africa. Diversity. 2021; 13(1):1. https://doi.org/10.3390/d13010001
Chicago/Turabian StyleStein, Katharina, Drissa Coulibaly, Larba Hubert Balima, Dethardt Goetze, Karl Eduard Linsenmair, Stefan Porembski, Kathrin Stenchly, and Panagiotis Theodorou. 2021. "Plant-Pollinator Networks in Savannas of Burkina Faso, West Africa" Diversity 13, no. 1: 1. https://doi.org/10.3390/d13010001