[HTML][HTML] Pollinator diversity benefits natural and agricultural ecosystems, environmental health, and human welfare

DM Katumo, H Liang, AC Ochola, M Lv, QF Wang… - Plant Diversity, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Biodiversity loss during the Anthropocene is a serious ecological challenge. Pollinators are
important vectors that provide multiple essential ecosystem services but are declining …

Cascading impacts of seed disperser loss on plant communities and ecosystems

HS Rogers, I Donoso, A Traveset… - Annual Review of …, 2021‏ - annualreviews.org
Seed dispersal is key to the persistence and spread of plant populations. Because the
majority of plant species rely on animals to disperse their seeds, global change drivers that …

Widespread vulnerability of flowering plant seed production to pollinator declines

JG Rodger, JM Bennett, M Razanajatovo, TM Knight… - Science …, 2021‏ - science.org
Despite evidence of pollinator declines from many regions across the globe, the threat this
poses to plant populations is not clear because plants can often produce seeds without …

Pollinators contribute to the maintenance of flowering plant diversity

N Wei, RL Kaczorowski, G Arceo-Gómez, EM O'Neill… - Nature, 2021‏ - nature.com
Mechanisms that favour rare species are key to the maintenance of diverse communities,–.
One of the most critical tasks for conservation of flowering plant biodiversity is to understand …

[HTML][HTML] Anthropogenic air pollutants reduce insect-mediated pollination services

JMW Ryalls, B Langford, NJ Mullinger… - Environmental …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Common air pollutants, such as nitrogen oxides (NO x), emitted in diesel exhaust, and
ozone (O 3), have been implicated in the decline of pollinating insects. Reductionist …

Conceptualizing ecosystem services using social–ecological networks

MR Felipe-Lucia, AM Guerrero, SM Alexander… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2022‏ - cell.com
Social–ecological networks (SENs) represent the complex relationships between ecological
and social systems and are a useful tool for analyzing and managing ecosystem services …

[HTML][HTML] Pollinator decline: what do we know about the drivers of solitary bee declines?

G LeBuhn, JV Luna - Current opinion in insect science, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•Habitat loss stands out as the best studied driver.•Other known drivers are
pesticides, nitrogen deposition, heavy metals and diseases.•Ecological and morphological …

Hand pollination of global crops–a systematic review

A Wurz, I Grass, T Tscharntke - Basic and Applied Ecology, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Global pollinator declines and land-use change can lead to pollination limitation with
implications for agricultural productivity. Hand pollination is used in agricultural production …

Honeybees are far too insufficient to supply optimum pollination services in agricultural systems worldwide

SK Mashilingi, H Zhang, LA Garibaldi, J An - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Evidence of a decline in wild pollinators is increasing across global and local habitats.
However, with regional variation, the number of managed pollinators has increased globally …

Insufficient pollinator visitation often limits yield in crop systems worldwide

KJ Turo, JR Reilly, TPM Fijen, A Magrach… - Nature Ecology & …, 2024‏ - nature.com
Declining pollinator populations could threaten global food production, especially if current
crop yields are limited by insufficient pollinator visitation to flowers, in a phenomenon …