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Titre : |
Unravelling the secret life of cacao pollinators – behaviour, breeding habitats and relationships across the Neotropics
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Auteur(s) : |
Fanny Kratz, Auteur (et co-auteur)
Bram Vanschoenwinkel, Responsable de stage Eliza VAN DE SANDE, Responsable de stage Université de Guyane, Etablissement de soutenance |
Type de document : | Mémoire |
Filière : | M. : EFT -- Ecologie des Forêts Tropicales |
Sujets : | Cacao ; Pollinisateur ; Apidae ; Guyane française ; Pérou ; Nicaragua ; Amazonie |
Résumé : |
Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) is crucial for farmers in the tropics, yet uncertainty surrounds the identity and breeding habitats of its pollinators. This study explores the flower visiting behaviour of the main cacao flower visitors caught in a French Guiana agroforestry system, Ceratopogonidae and Cecidomyiidae, and compares their identity across Neotropical sites.DNA Barcoding was used to identify and compare specimens collected in French Guiana withour existing database of ceratopogonid sequences from Nicaragua and Peru. The results revealed that ceratopogonids were captured throughout the day at lower temperatures than cecidomyiids on the reproductive parts of cacao flowers, illustrating potential environmental niche differentiation. The observed flower visiting behaviour of ceratop[...]
Cacao (Theobroma cacao L.) is crucial for farmers in the tropics, yet uncertainty surrounds the identity and breeding habitats of its pollinators. This study explores the flower visiting behaviour of the main cacao flower visitors caught in a French Guiana agroforestry system, Ceratopogonidae and Cecidomyiidae, and compares their identity across Neotropical sites.DNA Barcoding was used to identify and compare specimens collected in French Guiana withour existing database of ceratopogonid sequences from Nicaragua and Peru. The results revealed that ceratopogonids were captured throughout the day at lower temperatures than cecidomyiids on the reproductive parts of cacao flowers, illustrating potential environmental niche differentiation. The observed flower visiting behaviour of ceratopogonids supports their potential role as the main suspected pollinators of cacao flowers. DNA Barcoding iden-tified a diverse assemblage of ceratopogonid in the French Guiana agroforestry system, with genetic affinity to sequences from Nicaragua and Peru based on K2P and p-distances. Thesubstantial local and regional genetic diversity of flower visiting ceratopogonids in the Neotropics, suggests that the system might be relatively resilient to changes in environmental conditions compared to a situation with a more limited set of pollinators. However, since the activity of ceratopogonids seems to be linked to low temperatures, warming conditions, or as witch to intensive full sun cocoa cultivation might reduce their effectiveness as pollinators. It would be important to analyse variation in pollinator communities across different cacao cultivation systems and climatic zones to get more insight in how these gradients affect pollinators and ultimately, yield.
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Date de publication : | 2023 |
Format : | 36 p. / ill. coul., ill. n&b., graph. coul., tabl. coul., carte coul. |
Langue(s) : | Anglais |
Lien vers la notice : | https://infodoc.agroparistech.fr/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=222635 |
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