Cover | SCAPE 2024 Pollination Ecology
Image of a female hoverfly (Episyrphus balteatus) on Asphodelus aestivus.
June 2026 Cover
Photograph by Miguel Ángel
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At the 38th meeting of the Scandinavian Association for Pollination Ecology, which took place in 2024 in Lofthus, Norway, NJB and the Journal of Pollination Ecology (JPE) decided to build on the success of the SCAPE 2019 joint special issue. For this SCAPE 2024 special issue in pollination ecology, we brought together a new set of experts as guest editors and assembled the issue in two parts: articles with a focus on plants are published in the NJB issue, while articles with a focus on pollinators are published in the JPE issue.
The cover image shows a female of the hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus (Diptera: Syrphidae), interacting with the anther of Asphodelus aestivus Brot. (Liliaceae). The image relates to the study by Kazantzidou et al. which explores the interannual shifts in pollinators’ roles within pollination networks. The authors used two years of data from 18 plant–pollinator communities on Mallorca Island (Spain), to assess the interannual variation in plant and pollinator assemblages. They then examined how changes in pollinator and plant abundance and richness related to changes in pollinator generalization, network roles, and diet breadth. There was no significant interannual variation in plant abundance or richness, whereas pollinator abundance and richness changed significantly between years, with different functional groups responding differently. Interannual variation in pollinator abundance and richness was significantly associated with variation in most network metrics. In general, increases in species abundance were linked to greater generalization, while increases in pollinator richness were associated with more specialized interactions. These patterns were partly driven by shifts in pollinator diets, as species occurring in both years expanded their diet breadth when their abundance increased.
Read the Editorial in Nordic Journal of Botany, by Kazantzidou et al. (2026): Community composition mediates interannual shifts in pollinators' roles within networks.
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