Asking the pikas politely…
Among factors hypothesized to play a role in maintaining insect pollinator diversity, small-scale environmental heterogeneity may be particularly important, but has been relatively little-studied. To fill this gap, we propose to compare plant, pollinator, and plant-pollinator interaction composition among transects that represent high and low levels of microclimate diversity, making use of five microclimate study sites established by Dr. Ian Breckheimer in the Upper Gunnison Watershed. Sampling will occur weekly during the growing seasons of 2023 and 2024. Data will be used to model how pollinator and plant-pollinator interaction diversity/composition metrics vary as a function of floral resource and microclimate diversity/composition metrics.
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