Assessing Insect Pollinator Populations Using Molecular Methods—Approaches and Metrics on Species Diversity, Abundance and Genetic Diversity
A special issue of Insects (ISSN 2075-4450).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2025 | Viewed by 546
Special Issue Editors
Interests: biodiversity; DNA metabarcoding; environmental DNA; genetic diversity; monitoring; non-lethal sampling; wild bees
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Interests: bumblebees; agroecology; pollination services
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Insect pollinator populations are facing dramatic declines worldwide due to numerous factors, such as climate change and land-use intensification. Yet, stable populations are crucial for ecosystem functioning and human food security. An increased effort of the scientific community to assess the state and development of insect pollinators on national and international scales can be observed. Although classical taxonomic approaches are still widely applied to study insect pollinator communities, molecular biology methods are gaining ground.
This Special Issue aims to publish original, theoretical or empirical research, reviews, quantitative meta-analyses or perspective articles that focus on the study of insect pollinator (e.g., bees, butterflies, hoverflies, moths) populations using molecular biology methods. We are inviting contributions focusing on pollinator species diversity and pollinator abundance, as well as their genetic diversity. Assessments of pollinator interactions with their environment, if assessed using genetic methods, will be considered if the state and health of pollinator populations is given a particular focus.
Dr. Wiebke Sickel
Dr. Frank M. J. Sommerlandt
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- insect declines
- landscape genomics
- molecular biology
- population fitness
- population genetics
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