Integrating pollinators’ movements into pollination models
Accurate prediction of pollination processes is a key challenge for sustainable food production and the conservation of natural ecosystems. For many plants, pollen dispersal is mediated by the foraging movements of nectarivore animals. While most current models of pollination ecology assume random p...
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| author | Juliane Mailly Louise Riotte-Lambert Mathieu Lihoreau |
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| description | Accurate prediction of pollination processes is a key challenge for sustainable food production and the conservation of natural ecosystems. For many plants, pollen dispersal is mediated by the foraging movements of nectarivore animals. While most current models of pollination ecology assume random pollen movements, studies in animal behaviour show how pollinating insects, birds and bats rely on sensory cues, learning and memory to visit flowers, thereby producing complex movement patterns. Building upon a brief review of pollination and movement models, we argue that we need to better consider pollinators’ cognition to improve predictions of animal-mediated pollination across all spatial scales, from individual flowers, to plants, habitat patches and landscapes. We propose a practical roadmap for the integration of behavioural models into pollination models and discuss how this synthesis can refine predictions regarding plant mating patterns and fitness. Such crosstalk between animal behaviour and plant ecology research will provide powerful mechanistic tools to predict and act on pollination services in the context of a looming crisis. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-0026e6d17e8a4caba7e5c23f6833d5ac2025-08-20T03:12:39ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution2296-701X2025-02-011310.3389/fevo.2025.15044801504480Integrating pollinators’ movements into pollination modelsJuliane Mailly0Louise Riotte-Lambert1Mathieu Lihoreau2Research Center on Animal Cognition (CRCA), Center for Integrative Biology (CBI); CNRS, Toulouse University, Toulouse, FranceCEFE, CNRS, Univ Montpellier, EPHE, IRD, Montpellier, FranceResearch Center on Animal Cognition (CRCA), Center for Integrative Biology (CBI); CNRS, Toulouse University, Toulouse, FranceAccurate prediction of pollination processes is a key challenge for sustainable food production and the conservation of natural ecosystems. For many plants, pollen dispersal is mediated by the foraging movements of nectarivore animals. While most current models of pollination ecology assume random pollen movements, studies in animal behaviour show how pollinating insects, birds and bats rely on sensory cues, learning and memory to visit flowers, thereby producing complex movement patterns. Building upon a brief review of pollination and movement models, we argue that we need to better consider pollinators’ cognition to improve predictions of animal-mediated pollination across all spatial scales, from individual flowers, to plants, habitat patches and landscapes. We propose a practical roadmap for the integration of behavioural models into pollination models and discuss how this synthesis can refine predictions regarding plant mating patterns and fitness. Such crosstalk between animal behaviour and plant ecology research will provide powerful mechanistic tools to predict and act on pollination services in the context of a looming crisis.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2025.1504480/fullagent-based modelspollination ecologyforaging patternspollen dispersalpollination models |
| spellingShingle | Juliane Mailly Louise Riotte-Lambert Mathieu Lihoreau Integrating pollinators’ movements into pollination models Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution agent-based models pollination ecology foraging patterns pollen dispersal pollination models |
| title | Integrating pollinators’ movements into pollination models |
| title_full | Integrating pollinators’ movements into pollination models |
| title_fullStr | Integrating pollinators’ movements into pollination models |
| title_full_unstemmed | Integrating pollinators’ movements into pollination models |
| title_short | Integrating pollinators’ movements into pollination models |
| title_sort | integrating pollinators movements into pollination models |
| topic | agent-based models pollination ecology foraging patterns pollen dispersal pollination models |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2025.1504480/full |
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