Adjacent crop type impacts potential pollinator communities and their pollination services in remnants of natural vegetation

Aim Pollination plays a crucial role in the conservation of many plant species persisting fragmented, human-dominated landscapes. Pollinators are known to be instrumental maintaining genetic diversity and metapopulation dynamics for important providing ecological services that essential agricultural landscapes where populations native plants highly isolated. Numerous studies have explored value remnant vegetation supporting pollination crop species, yet effect mass-flowering crops on pollinator communities they provide fragmented less well understood. Here, we assess influence presence phenology community structure, abundance, pollen load composition complex Location South-west Western Australia, Australia. Methods We recorded abundance insect flower visitors their loads isolated remnants York Gum-Jam woodlands adjacent canola (insect-attracting) or wheat (non-insect-attracting) fields over two years. Results All bees were much more sensitive type (neighbouring wheat) than non-bee pollinators. Honeybees most abundant pollinators during peak flowering. Honeybee increased canola-adjacent reserves post bloom, potentially indicating movement into as flowering waned. Native diverse vegetation. Pollen mixed (increased richness evenness) when sampled next compared fields. Main conclusion The availability potential wildflower is context dependent. Whether landscape significantly impacted certain elements, but not others, carried by these insects. offer novel insights about available