| Budget Amount *help |
¥40,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥31,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥9,360,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥8,060,000 (Direct Cost: ¥6,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,860,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥10,660,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,460,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥10,660,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,460,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥11,180,000 (Direct Cost: ¥8,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥2,580,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Ecological functions of flower-visiting bees were studied in terms of the creation of flowering phenology at community scale and of floral traits at individual species level.
In the community-scale study, relationships between flowering structure and foraging activity of bees and flies were compared between bee-dominated Mongolian site and fly-dominated Taiwan alpine site. We revealed that flowering overlaps between plant species within a community were smaller in bee-pollinated plants than in fly-pollinated plants. Composition of floral colors within a community strictly reflected the proportion of bees within pollinator fauna across geographic sites.
In the species-level study, we revealed that pollination network varied among populations reflecting the seasonal variation in bee and fly activity and that plant reproductive traits varied reflecting local variation in pollinator composition along the elevation gradient.
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