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 …

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 …

Biodiversity and pollination benefits trade off against profit in an intensive farming system

J Scheper, I Badenhausser… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Agricultural expansion and intensification have boosted global food production but have
come at the cost of environmental degradation and biodiversity loss. Biodiversity-friendly …

[HTML][HTML] Landscape crop diversity and semi-natural habitat affect crop pollinators, pollination benefit and yield

CA Raderschall, R Bommarco, SAM Lindström… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2021 - Elsevier
Agricultural intensification has led to the conversion of natural habitats into agricultural
fields, increased field sizes and simplified crop rotations. The resulting homogenisation of …

Meta-analysis reveals that pollinator functional diversity and abundance enhance crop pollination and yield

BA Woodcock, MPD Garratt, GD Powney… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
How insects promote crop pollination remains poorly understood in terms of the contribution
of functional trait differences between species. We used meta-analyses to test for …

Significance of apoidea as main pollinators. ecological and economic impact and implications for human nutrition

P Hristov, B Neov, R Shumkova, N Palova - Diversity, 2020 - mdpi.com
Wild and managed bees provide pollination services to crops and wild plants, as well as a
variety of other services beneficial to humans. Honey bees are the most economically …

Landscape greening and local creation of wildflower strips and hedgerows promote multiple ecosystem services

L Sutter, M Albrecht, P Jeanneret - Journal of applied ecology, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The explicit and implicit aims of creating ecological focus areas (EFA s) and implementing
greening measures in European agro‐ecosystems include the promotion of regulatory …

Economic measures of pollination services: shortcomings and future directions

TD Breeze, N Gallai, LA Garibaldi, XS Li - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2016 - cell.com
Over the past 20 years, there has been growing interest in the possible economic impacts of
pollination service loss and management. Although the literature area has expanded …

Insect pollination is at least as important for marketable crop yield as plant quality in a seed crop

TPM Fijen, JA Scheper, TM Boom, N Janssen… - Ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The sustainability of agriculture can be improved by integrating management of ecosystem
services, such as insect pollination, into farming practices. However, large‐scale adoption of …

The impact of honey bee colony quality on crop yield and farmers' profit in apples and pears

B Geslin, MA Aizen, N Garcia, AJ Pereira… - Agriculture, ecosystems …, 2017 - Elsevier
Despite global interest in the role of pollinators for food production, their impact on farmers'
profit, which determines farmers' livelihood and land-use decisions, is unclear. Although …