Insect declines in the Anthropocene

DL Wagner - Annual review of entomology, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Insect declines are being reported worldwide for flying, ground, and aquatic lineages. Most
reports come from western and northern Europe, where the insect fauna is well-studied and …

Managing riparian buffer strips to optimise ecosystem services: A review

LJ Cole, J Stockan, R Helliwell - Agriculture, ecosystems & environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Riparian buffer strips provide a wide range of ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes
with benefits extending beyond those provided by non-riparian field margins. For example …

Landscape configurational heterogeneity by small-scale agriculture, not crop diversity, maintains pollinators and plant reproduction in western Europe

AL Hass, UG Kormann… - … of the Royal …, 2018 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Agricultural intensification is one of the main causes for the current biodiversity crisis. While
reversing habitat loss on agricultural land is challenging, increasing the farmland …

Non-bee insects as visitors and pollinators of crops: Biology, ecology, and management

R Rader, SA Cunningham, BG Howlett… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Insects other than bees (ie, non-bees) have been acknowledged as important crop
pollinators, but our understanding of which crop plants they visit and how effective they are …

A critical analysis of the potential for EU Common Agricultural Policy measures to support wild pollinators on farmland

LJ Cole, D Kleijn, LV Dicks, JC Stout… - Journal of Applied …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Agricultural intensification and associated loss of high‐quality habitats are key drivers of
insect pollinator declines. With the aim of decreasing the environmental impact of …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancing road verges to aid pollinator conservation: A review

BB Phillips, C Wallace, BR Roberts… - Biological …, 2020 - Elsevier
Road verges provide habitats that have considerable potential as a tool for pollinator
conservation, especially given the significant area of land that they collectively cover …

Hand pollination of global crops–A systematic review

A Wurz, I Grass, T Tscharntke - Basic and Applied Ecology, 2021 - Elsevier
Global pollinator declines and land-use change can lead to pollination limitation with
implications for agricultural productivity. Hand pollination is used in agricultural production …

Different types of semi‐natural habitat are required to sustain diverse wild bee communities across agricultural landscapes

C Maurer, L Sutter, C Martínez‐Núñez… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Semi‐natural habitats provide important resources for wild bees in agricultural landscapes.
Landscapes under management are dynamic and floral resources fluctuate in space and …

The maturation of ecosystem services: Social and policy research expands, but whither biophysically informed valuation?

KMA Chan, T Satterfield - People and Nature, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The concept of ecosystem services (ES) has risen to prominence based on its promise to
vastly improve environmental decision‐making and to represent nature's many benefits to …

The ecology of predatory hoverflies as ecosystem-service providers in agricultural systems

N Rodríguez-Gasol, G Alins, ER Veronesi, S Wratten - Biological Control, 2020 - Elsevier
The main contemporary challenge for agriculture is to meet the food demands of the
increasing world population while becoming more environmentally sustainable. One way to …