Long-term global trends in crop yield and production reveal no current pollination shortage but increasing pollinator dependency.

By M. Aizen, L. Garibaldi, S. Cunningham, Alexandra-Maria Klein. Current Biology, 2008

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Plant Science

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Pollination efficiency of wild bees and hoverflies provided to oilseed rape (2012, background): “At the same time, agriculture has become more pollinator-dependent because of a stronger increase in the area cultivated with flowering crops compared with nonflowering crops (Aizen et al., 2008, 2009; Aizen & Harder, 2009).”
Pollination services in the UK: how important are honeybees? (2011, background): “While trends in global yields do not demonstrate any significant global pollination shortage (Aizen et al , 2008), regional declines have been associated with localised shortfalls in pollinator populations (Steffan-24 Dewenter et al , 2005).”
How do belowground organisms influence plant–pollinator interactions? (2015, neutral): “2009), raising concerns about reduced pollination services (Aizen et al. 2008).”
A national survey of managed honey bee 2013–2014 annual colony losses in the USA (2015, neutral): “However, it is unclear if beekeepers will be able to sustain this level of annual loss and meet pollination demand while the acreage of pollinatordependent crops continues to increase faster than the honey bee population (Aizen et al. 2008; Aizen and Harder 2009).”
Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination (2015, neutral): “With the growing economic importance of crops that require animal-mediated pollination (74), wild insect pollinators are increasingly being recognized for their role in improving and stabilizing crop-pollination services (75).”
The global stock of domesticated honey bees is growing slower than agricultural demand for pollination. (2009, methodology): “In contrast, our analysis of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) [11] data reveals that the global population of managed honey-bee hives has increased w45% during the last half century and suggests that economic globalization, rather than biological factors, drives both the dynamics of the globa”
Economic gain, stability of pollination and bee diversity decrease from southern to northern Europe (2013, background): “…considred (Lautenbach, Seppelt, Liebscher, & Dormann 2012). oreover, all over the world, agricultural production increasngly depends on pollination (Aizen et al. 2008; Garibaldi, izen, et al. 2011), a trend that can be highly country- and egion-specific (Lautenbach et al. 2012) but points to a…”
Pollination reservoirs for wild bee habitat enhancement in cropping systems: a review (2017, background): “KEYWORDS Ecosystem services; hedgerows; native bees; pollination services; wildflower planting Pollinators are essential for maintaining the stability of the global food supply (Aizen et al. 2008; Aizen and Harder 2009; Torchio 1990).”
Influence of combined pesticide and parasite exposure on bumblebee colony traits in the laboratory (2014, background): “There is growing awareness about the economic and ecological value of pollinators, including the future prospect of vastly increased demands for the services that they provide (Klein et al. 2007; Aizen et al. 2008; Gallai et al. 2009).”
Bee declines driven by combined stress from parasites, pesticides, and lack of flowers (2015, background): “(28) concluded from a global analysis of changing crop yields over time that there was not yet any clear evidence that a shortage of pollinators was reducing yield, a sub-”
A global quantitative synthesis of local and landscape effects on wild bee pollinators in agroecosystems. (2013, neutral): “Apis declines in regions of the United States and Europe (Potts et al. 2010b), concomitant with increases in pollination-dependent crop cultivation globally, have increased the potential for pollination shortfalls for farmers (Aizen et al. 2008).”