Abstract

The destruction of rainforests can affect many ecosystem services, e.g pollination services for wild and crop plants in landscapes with high proportion of natural habitats. We discuss evidence of the impact of landuse change toward insect pollinator communities and pollination based in the tropics, with an emphasis on case-studies from Indonesia. Some studies showed that species richness of flower visiting bees, pollination, and fruit set were found to be negatively correlated with increasing rainforest isolation and land-use intensity. However, others demonstrated an opposite pattern. Species composition changes significantly between habitat types, which may be relevant in the context of environmental changes as species composition can be an important variable to ensure pollination services and fruit set.

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