[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 …

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 …

A review of the challenges and opportunities for restoring animal-mediated pollination of native plants

DP Cariveau, B Bruninga-Socolar… - Emerging Topics in Life …, 2020 - portlandpress.com
Ecological restoration is increasingly implemented to reverse habitat loss and concomitant
declines in biological diversity. Typically, restoration success is evaluated by measuring the …

Land use and pollinator dependency drives global patterns of pollen limitation in the Anthropocene

JM Bennett, JA Steets, JH Burns, LA Burkle… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Land use change, by disrupting the co-evolved interactions between plants and their
pollinators, could be causing plant reproduction to be limited by pollen supply. Using a …

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 …

Animal‐pollinated crops and cultivars—A quantitative assessment of pollinator dependence values and evaluation of methodological approaches

C Siopa, LG Carvalheiro, H Castro… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Crop pollinator dependence (PD) values are key when assessing a pollinator's contribution
to agriculture, guiding management plans and policies for sustainable crop production …

Global analysis of floral longevity reveals latitudinal gradients and biotic and abiotic correlates

B Song, L Sun, SCH Barrett, AT Moles, YH Luo… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The length of time a flower remains open and functional–floral longevity–governs important
reproductive processes influencing pollination and mating and varies considerably among …

Climate change and invasion may synergistically affect native plant reproduction

J Giejsztowt, AT Classen, JR Deslippe - Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Global change drivers can interact in synergistic ways, yet the interactive effect of global
change drivers, such as climatic warming and species invasions, on plant pollination are …

The neglected importance of floral traits in trait‐based plant community assembly

AE‐Vojtkó, F de Bello, W Durka, I Kühn… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Floral traits are frequently studied in population biology and evolutionary ecology but
are rarely considered in functional trait‐based studies focusing on the assembly of …

The scope for postmating sexual selection in plants

J Tonnabel, P David, T Janicke, A Lehner… - Trends in Ecology & …, 2021 - cell.com
Sexual selection is known to shape plant traits that affect access to mates during the
pollination phase, but it is less well understood to what extent it affects traits relevant to …