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 …

Stability of pollination services decreases with isolation from natural areas despite honey bee visits

LA Garibaldi, I Steffan‐Dewenter, C Kremen… - Ecology …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2011) 14: 1062–1072 Abstract Sustainable agricultural landscapes by
definition provide high magnitude and stability of ecosystem services, biodiversity and crop …

Land-use intensification causes multitrophic homogenization of grassland communities

MM Gossner, TM Lewinsohn, T Kahl, F Grassein… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Land-use intensification is a major driver of biodiversity loss,. Alongside reductions in local
species diversity, biotic homogenization at larger spatial scales is of great concern for …

Impacts of neonicotinoid use on long-term population changes in wild bees in England

BA Woodcock, NJB Isaac, JM Bullock, DB Roy… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Wild bee declines have been ascribed in part to neonicotinoid insecticides. While short-term
laboratory studies on commercially bred species (principally honeybees and bumblebees) …

Historical changes in northeastern US bee pollinators related to shared ecological traits

I Bartomeus, JS Ascher, J Gibbs… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Pollinators such as bees are essential to the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems. However,
despite concerns about a global pollinator crisis, long-term data on the status of bee species …

Environmental factors driving the effectiveness of European agri‐environmental measures in mitigating pollinator loss–a meta‐analysis

J Scheper, A Holzschuh, M Kuussaari, SG Potts… - Ecology …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
In Europe, agri‐environmental schemes (AES) have been introduced in response to
concerns about farmland biodiversity declines. Yet, as AES have delivered variable results …

Mass‐flowering crops dilute pollinator abundance in agricultural landscapes across Europe

A Holzschuh, M Dainese, JP González‐Varo… - Ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Mass‐flowering crops (MFC s) are increasingly cultivated and might influence pollinator
communities in MFC fields and nearby semi‐natural habitats (SNH s). Across six European …

Biodiversity, species interactions and ecological networks in a fragmented world

M Hagen, WD Kissling, C Rasmussen… - Advances in ecological …, 2012 - Elsevier
Biodiversity is organised into complex ecological networks of interacting species in local
ecosystems, but our knowledge about the effects of habitat fragmentation on such systems …

Predicting ecosystem functions from biodiversity and mutualistic networks: an extension of trait‐based concepts to plant–animal interactions

M Schleuning, J Fründ, D García - Ecography, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Research linking biodiversity and ecosystem functioning (BEF) has been mostly centred on
the influence of species richness on ecosystem functions in small‐scale experiments with …

Insect pollination enhances seed yield, quality, and market value in oilseed rape

R Bommarco, L Marini, BE Vaissière - Oecologia, 2012 - Springer
The relationships between landscape intensification, the abundance and diversity of
pollinating insects, and their contributions to crop yield, quality, and market value are poorly …