The effects of livestock grazing on biodiversity are multi‐trophic: a meta‐analysis

A Filazzola, C Brown, MA Dettlaff, A Batbaatar… - Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Anthropogenic disturbance has generated a significant loss of biodiversity worldwide and
grazing by domestic herbivores is a contributing disturbance. Although the effects of grazing …

Ecological intensification to mitigate impacts of conventional intensive land use on pollinators and pollination

A Kovács‐Hostyánszki, A Espíndola… - Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Worldwide, human appropriation of ecosystems is disrupting plant–pollinator communities
and pollination function through habitat conversion and landscape homogenisation …

The forgotten flies: the importance of non-syrphid Diptera as pollinators

KA Orford, IP Vaughan… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Bees, hoverflies and butterflies are taxa frequently studied as pollinators in agricultural and
conservation contexts. Although there are many records of non-syrphid Diptera visiting …

[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 …

Protecting an ecosystem service: approaches to understanding and mitigating threats to wild insect pollinators

RJ Gill, KCR Baldock, MJF Brown, JE Cresswell… - Advances in ecological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Insect pollination constitutes an ecosystem service of global importance, providing
significant economic and aesthetic benefits as well as cultural value to human society …

A critical evaluation of network approaches for studying species interactions

N Blüthgen, M Staab - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Ecological networks of species interactions are popular and provide powerful analytical
tools for understanding variation in community structure and ecosystem functioning …

Artificial light at night as a new threat to pollination

E Knop, L Zoller, R Ryser, C Gerpe, M Hörler… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Pollinators are declining worldwide and this has raised concerns for a parallel decline in the
essential pollination service they provide to both crops and wild plants,. Anthropogenic …

Temperate agroforestry systems provide greater pollination service than monoculture

A Varah, H Jones, J Smith, SG Potts - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Insect pollination is a globally important ecosystem service, contributing to crop yields,
production stability and the maintenance of wild plant populations. Ironically, agriculture is …

Landscape simplification shapes pathogen prevalence in plant‐pollinator networks

LL Figueroa, H Grab, WH Ng, CR Myers… - Ecology …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Species interaction networks, which play an important role in determining pathogen
transmission and spread in ecological communities, can shift in response to agricultural …

Generalisation and specialisation in hoverfly (Syrphidae) grassland pollen transport networks revealed by DNA metabarcoding

A Lucas, O Bodger, BJ Brosi, CR Ford… - Journal of Animal …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Pollination by insects is a key ecosystem service and important to wider ecosystem function.
Most species‐level pollination networks studied have a generalised structure, with plants …