Overview of bee pollination and its economic value for crop production

SAM Khalifa, EH Elshafiey, AA Shetaia, AAA El-Wahed… - Insects, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary There is a rising demand for food security in the face of threats posed by a
growing human population. Bees as an insect play a crucial role in crop pollination …

Pesticides and soil invertebrates: A hazard assessment

T Gunstone, T Cornelisse, K Klein, A Dubey… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Agricultural pesticide use and its associated environmental harms is widespread throughout
much of the world. Efforts to mitigate this harm have largely been focused on reducing …

A global-scale expert assessment of drivers and risks associated with pollinator decline

LV Dicks, TD Breeze, HT Ngo, D Senapathi… - Nature Ecology & …, 2021 - nature.com
Pollinator decline has attracted global attention and substantial efforts are underway to
respond through national pollinator strategies and action plans. These policy responses …

Recent and future declines of a historically widespread pollinator linked to climate, land cover, and pesticides

WM Janousek, MR Douglas… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
The acute decline in global biodiversity includes not only the loss of rare species, but also
the rapid collapse of common species across many different taxa. The loss of pollinating …

Global meta-analysis shows reduced quality of food crops under inadequate animal pollination

E Gazzea, P Batáry, L Marini - Nature communications, 2023 - nature.com
Animal pollination supports the production of a wide range of food crops fundamental to
maintaining diverse and nutritionally balanced diets. Here, we present a global meta …

Bee and non-bee pollinator importance for local food security

F Requier, N Pérez-Méndez, GKS Andersson… - Trends in ecology & …, 2023 - cell.com
Pollinators are critical for food security; however, their contribution to the pollination of locally
important crops is still unclear, especially for non-bee pollinators. We reviewed the diversity …

Forests are critically important to global pollinator diversity and enhance pollination in adjacent crops

M Ulyshen, KR Urban‐Mead, JB Dorey… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Although the importance of natural habitats to pollinator diversity is widely recognized, the
value of forests to pollinating insects has been largely overlooked in many parts of the world …

Pollinator deficits, food consumption, and consequences for human health: a modeling study

MR Smith, ND Mueller, M Springmann… - Environmental …, 2022 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Animal pollination supports agricultural production for many healthy foods,
such as fruits, vegetables, nuts, and legumes, that provide key nutrients and protect against …

IPM reduces insecticide applications by 95% while maintaining or enhancing crop yields through wild pollinator conservation

JR Pecenka, LL Ingwell, RE Foster… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Pest management practices in modern industrial agriculture have increasingly relied on
insurance-based insecticides such as seed treatments that are poorly correlated with pest …

[BOOK][B] Pollinators and pollination: nature and society

J Ollerton - 2021 - books.google.com
A unique and personal insight into the ecology and evolution of pollinators, their
relationships with flowers, and their conservation in a rapidly changing world. The …