Coordinators: Fabrice Requier, IRD and Jeff Ollerton, UoS
The planned field work in Martinique is:
(1) a case study of Guava pollination, an economically important tropical crop that depends on animal pollination and that has been little studied in terms of pollination services, in collaboration with the local partner FREDON Martinique. The study case will include pollination experiments using common exclusion techniques to assess animal pollination services and potential pollination deficits at several study sites across Martinique, and surveys of flower-visiting insects at each site to study the diversity of pollinators of this crop.
(2) surveys of birds (hummingbirds and passerines) that pollinate wild plants on the island. The bird surveys from here and Curaçao will add to a larger data set of bird pollinators of the Lesser Antilles that we have access to.