The nutritional landscape in agroecosystems: a review on how resources and management practices can shape pollinator health in agricultural environments

PW Lau, IL Esquivel, KA Parys… - Annals of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Pollinator nutrition is a highly complex subject that we are just starting to unravel, from the
multidimensional nature of bee forage (pollen and nectar) to how the abiotic environment …

Early‐season mass‐flowering crop cover dilutes wild bee abundance and species richness in temperate regions: A quantitative synthesis

LGA Riggi, CA Raderschall, TPM Fijen… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Pollinators benefit from increasing floral resources in agricultural landscapes, which could
be an underexplored co‐benefit of mass‐flowering crop cultivation. However, the impacts of …

Landscape-level honey bee hive density, instead of field-level hive density, enhances honey bee visitation in blueberry

M Eeraerts, E Rogers, B Gillespie, L Best, OM Smith… - Landscape …, 2023 - Springer
Context To date, managing honey bees and wild bees within crop fields remains
challenging. Landscape structure is often overlooked when studying the pollination …

Effects of ozone air pollution on crop pollinators and pollination

O Rollin, J Aguirre‐Gutiérrez… - Global Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Human driven environmental changes increase the concentrations of polluting reactive
compounds in the troposphere, such as ozone and nitrogen oxides. These changes lead to …

Field boundary features can stabilise bee populations and the pollination of mass‐flowering crops in rotational systems

E Gardner, TD Breeze, Y Clough… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Pollinators experience large spatiotemporal fluctuations in resource availability when mass‐
flowering crops are rotated with resource‐poor cereal crops. Yet, few studies have …

Addressing pollination deficits in orchard crops through habitat management for wild pollinators

MPD Garratt, RS O'Connor, C Carvell… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
There is increasing evidence that farmers in many areas are achieving below maximum
yields due to insufficient pollination. Practical and effective approaches are needed to …

Floral resource discontinuity contributes to spatial mismatch between pollinator supply and pollination demand in a pollinator-dependent agricultural landscapes

J Hemberger, C Gratton - Landscape Ecology, 2023 - Springer
Context Wild insects provide essential ecosystem services, including pollination, in both wild
and managed landscapes. Over the past century, agricultural intensification and habitat loss …

Landscape structure and farming management interacts to modulate pollination supply and crop production in blueberries

AF Ramírez‐Mejía, PG Blendinger… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Pollination services are affected by landscape context, farming management and pollinator
community structure, all of which impact flower visitation rates, pollen deposition and final …

Contrasting effects of past and present mass-flowering crop cultivation on bee pollinators sha** yield components in oilseed rape

N Beyer, D Gabriel, C Westphal - Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The cultivation of mass-flowering crops (MFC) can promote pollinators by providing floral
resources. However, there is missing knowledge about the effect of MFC cultivation history …

Forest and grassland habitats support pollinator diversity more than wildflowers and sunflower monoculture

D Vujanović, G Losapio, M Mészáros… - Ecological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Intensively managed agricultural landscapes often lack suitable habitats to support diverse
wildlife, particularly harming pollinator communities. Besides mass flowering crops, remnant …