URBANPOLL is a project coordinated by the University of Napoli Federico II that aims to investigate the parallel adaptation of floral traits in white clover, Trifolium repens, in response to pollinator decline along the urbanization gradient. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Urban areas are characterized by peculiar conditions when compared to surrounding rural areas and might represent \u201cunintended but highly replicated experimental evolution systems\u201d to test the resilience of plant species facing rapid anthropogenic environmental changes. Whilst adaptations to abiotic urban factors have been well investigated, less is known about the selective pressures imposed by biotic interactions of plants, particularly those with mutualistic organisms as insect pollinators. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With URBANPOLL we aim to fill this gap by investigating how urbanization influences local adaptation of floral traits involved in pollinator attraction and whether this process follows parallel trajectories in urban areas with contrasting climates. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our workgroup is participating in this project as a collaborator to help gather samples over different bioclimatic regions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":321,"template":"","class_list":["post-313","project","type-project","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pollination.ut.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pollination.ut.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pollination.ut.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pollination.ut.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pollination.ut.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}