Pollinator conservation - The difference between managing for pollination services and preserving pollinator diversity

By D. Senapathi, J. Biesmeijer, T. Breeze, D. Kleijn, S. Potts, L. Carvalheiro. 2015

175 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Our review looks at pollinator conservation and highlights the differences in approach between managing for pollination services and preserving pollinator diversity. We argue that ecosystem service management does not equal biodiversity conservation, and that maintaining species diversity is crucial in providing ecosystem resilience in the face of future environmental change. Management and policy measures therefore need to focus on species not just in human dominated landscapes but need to benefit wider diversity of species including those in specialised habitats. We argue that only by adopting a holistic ecosystem approach we can ensure the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity and ecosystem services in the long-term.

Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Plant Science

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. N. Williams
2. C. Kremen
3. Rebecca E. Irwin
4. Dave Goulson
5. John M. Holland
6. J. Cane
7. T. Wood
8. Daniel P. Cariveau

In Nature and Landscape Conservation

1. Rebecca E. Irwin
2. J. Cane
3. Shalene Jha
4. John M. Holland
5. Q. McFrederick
6. Mace Vaughan
7. N. Williams
8. R. James

In Plant Science

1. Rebecca E. Irwin
2. N. Williams
3. John M. Holland
4. J. Cane
5. T. Wood
6. Dave Goulson
7. M. Branstetter
8. Shalene Jha

Citations in the corpus

• Landscape impacts on pollinator communities in temperate systems: evidence and knowledge gaps (2017, unknown): “…also intricately linked to wider biodiversity as they are essential for the reproduction of many wild plant species (Ollerton, Winfree & Tarrant 2011) and involved in indirect ecological interactions with taxa from other trophic guilds, including predators and parasitoids (Senapathi et al. 2015a).”
• Towards a U.S. national program for monitoring native bees (2020, background): “Native bees also represent a significant proportion of natural biodiversity in the United States, with corresponding intrinsic value (Kleijn et al., 2015; Senapathi et al., 2015).”
• Providing foraging resources for solitary bees on farmland: current schemes for pollinators benefit a limited suite of species (2017, background): “In addition to bees being a valid conservation target in their own right, it has been argued that maintaining pollinator species diversity is crucial for providing ecosystem resilience in the face of future environmental change (Senapathi et al. 2015).”