Bees and the pollination services they deliver are beneficial to both food crop production,
and for reproduction of many wild plant species. Bee decline has stimulated widespread …

Ecosystem services (ES) are the direct and indirect contributions of ecosystems to human
well‐being. Grassland ecosystems cover> 40% of Earth's ice‐free terrestrial surface, and …

Land use and related pressures have reduced local terrestrial biodiversity, but it is unclear
how the magnitude of change relates to the recently proposed planetary boundary (“safe …

Human activities, especially conversion and degradation of habitats, are causing global
biodiversity declines. How local ecological assemblages are responding is less clear—a …

A challenge for today's agriculture is to ensure food and nutritional security for the rapidly
growing global population. The global population is expected to reach 8.55 billion by 2030 …

Bees, hoverflies and butterflies are taxa frequently studied as pollinators in agricultural and
conservation contexts. Although there are many records of non-syrphid Diptera visiting …

A substantial proportion of the global land surface is used for agricultural production.
Agricultural land serves multiple societal purposes; it provides food, fuel and fibre and also …

Numerous studies have recently reported on the discovery of bee viruses in different
arthropod species and their possible transmission routes, vastly increasing our …

Agri-environment schemes (AES) have been introduced to mitigate negative environmental
effects caused by increased agricultural intensification in Europe. However, there is still …

Biodiversity continues to decline in the face of increasing anthropogenic pressures such as
habitat destruction, exploitation, pollution and introduction of alien species. Existing global …