Risks to pollinators and pollination from invasive alien species

AJ Vanbergen, A Espíndola, MA Aizen - Nature ecology & evolution, 2018 - nature.com
Invasive alien species modify pollinator biodiversity and the services they provide that
underpin ecosystem function and human well-being. Building on the Intergovernmental …

Threats to an ecosystem service: pressures on pollinators

AJ Vanbergen… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Insect pollinators of crops and wild plants are under threat globally and their decline or loss
could have profound economic and environmental consequences. Here, we argue that …

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 …

Biological invasions as disruptors of plant reproductive mutualisms

A Traveset, DM Richardson - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2006 - cell.com
Invasive alien species affect the composition and functioning of invaded ecosystems in
many ways, altering ecological interactions that have arisen over evolutionary timescales …

Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers

SG Potts, JC Biesmeijer, C Kremen, P Neumann… - Trends in ecology & …, 2010 - cell.com
Pollinators are a key component of global biodiversity, providing vital ecosystem services to
crops and wild plants. There is clear evidence of recent declines in both wild and …

Safeguarding pollinators and their values to human well-being

SG Potts, V Imperatriz-Fonseca, HT Ngo, MA Aizen… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Wild and managed pollinators provide a wide range of benefits to society in terms of
contributions to food security, farmer and beekeeper livelihoods, social and cultural values …

Species traits and network structure predict the success and impacts of pollinator invasions

FS Valdovinos, EL Berlow… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Species invasions constitute a major and poorly understood threat to plant–pollinator
systems. General theory predicting which factors drive species invasion success and …

No consistent pollinator‐mediated impacts of alien plants on natives

JA Charlebois, RD Sargent - Ecology Letters, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The introduction of an alien plant is widely assumed to have negative consequences for the
pollinator‐mediated fitness of nearby natives. Indeed, a number of studies, including a …

From science to society: implementing effective strategies to improve wild pollinator health

JC Stout, LV Dicks - … Transactions of the Royal Society B, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Despite a substantial increase in scientific, public and political interest in pollinator health
and many practical conservation efforts, incorporating initiatives across a range of scales …

Exotic flies maintain pollination services as native pollinators decline with agricultural expansion

JR Stavert, DE Pattemore, I Bartomeus… - Journal of Applied …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Globally, conversion of natural habitat to agricultural land is a primary driver of declines in
critical ecosystem services, including pollination. However, exotic species are often well …