The conservation of urban flower visitors Down Under

The majority of the human population now lives in urban environments and that proportion is forecast to increase dramatically by 2050. As urbanization increases, environment will increasingly play a role biodiversity conservation. Floral visitors, often erroneously referred as pollinators, are integral maintenance ecosystem services function. Several floral visitors capable adapting environments, but for comprehensive protection, management practices must be tailored specific groups. Urban conservation usually discussed from northern hemisphere perspective, which has very different ecology than its southern counterpart. Here we compare contrast strategies flower Australia New Zealand hemisphere, with focus on birds bees. differences characteristics mean unique strategies, consider local evolutionary context integrate native flora, required support visitors. An additional important difference neither honey bees nor bumble bees, reach high densities many areas, region, thus should excluded schemes.