Pollinator diversity, floral resources and semi-natural habitat, instead of honey bees and intensive agriculture, enhance pollination service to sweet cherry

M Eeraerts, G Smagghe, I Meeus - Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Declines of pollinator diversity are causing concern about pollination service security for
agriculture and natural ecosystems. Landscape composition has been found to regulate the …

Pollination ecology: natural history, perspectives and future directions

HM Torezan-Silingardi… - … Interactions: Source of …, 2021 - Springer
Pollination is one of the most important plant-animal interactions driving the joint
diversification and evolution of seed plants and animals. Typically classified as a mutualistic …

Farmland heterogeneity is associated with gains in some ecosystem services but also potential trade-offs

J Botzas-Coluni, ETH Crockett, JT Rieb… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2021 - Elsevier
The intensification of farming practices negatively impacts the provision of many non-food
ecosystem services (ES), including pollination, pest regulation and water quality regulation …

Unveiling the contribution of bee pollinators to Brazilian crops with implications for bee management

TC Giannini, DA Alves, R Alves, GD Cordeiro… - Apidologie, 2020 - Springer
The need for basic information on tropical crop pollinators remains a key priority. Here, we
used a dataset on Brazilian bee-crop interactions to determine important bee species for …

High bee functional diversity buffers crop pollination services against Amazon deforestation

AJ Campbell, EM Lichtenberg, LG Carvalheiro… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2022 - Elsevier
Predicting outcomes of land use change on biodiversity and ecosystem services remains a
key priority for ecologists, but may be particularly challenging in diverse tropical ecosystems …

Global taxonomic, functional, and phylogenetic diversity of bees in apple orchards

N Leclercq, L Marshall, T Weekers, P Basu… - Science of the total …, 2023 - Elsevier
An essential prerequisite to safeguard pollinator species is characterisation of the
multifaceted diversity of crop pollinators and identification of the drivers of pollinator …

To what extent is fennel crop dependent on insect pollination?

L Schurr, V Masotti, B Geslin, S Gachet, P Mahé… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2022 - Elsevier
The importance of insects for global food crop production is starting to be well-known but the
level of dependence on insects is less referenced, especially for some aromatic crops …

Pollination supply models from a local to global scale

A Giménez-García, A Allen-Perkins, I Bartomeus… - Web …, 2023 - we.copernicus.org
Ecological intensification has been embraced with great interest by the academic sector but
is still rarely taken up by farmers because monitoring the state of different ecological …

Natural insurance as a green alternative for farmers? Empirical evidence for semi-natural habitats and methodological bias

J Faure, L Mouysset - Ecological Economics, 2025 - Elsevier
Natural insurance based on the provision of ecosystem services is a promising tool for the
future of agriculture. However, empirical evidence of the role it can play is lacking, and its …

Floral and pollinator functional diversity mediate network structure along an elevational gradient

LA Aguirre, RR Junker - Alpine Botany, 2024 - Springer
Elevational gradients in alpine ecosystems are well suited to study how plant and pollinator
communities respond to climate change. In the Austrian Alps, we tested how the taxonomic …