Spatial and temporal variation in pollinator effectiveness: do unmanaged insects provide consistent pollination services to mass flowering crops?

By Romina Rader, B. Howlett, S. Cunningham, David Westcott, W. Edwards. 2012

135 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Vincent Bretagnolle
2. A. Jacquemart
3. B. Larson
4. Julie Transon
5. R. Mallinger
6. Sabrina Gaba
7. P. Kevan
8. Rita Földesi

In Insect Science

1. A. Jacquemart
2. B. Larson
3. Vincent Bretagnolle
4. Julie Transon
5. R. Mallinger
6. Sabrina Gaba
7. Claudio Gratton
8. P. Batáry

In Plant Science

1. Vincent Bretagnolle
2. A. Jacquemart
3. B. Larson
4. Sabrina Gaba
5. P. Kevan
6. Claudio Gratton
7. P. Batáry
8. B. Howlett

Citations in the corpus

• Flower-strip agri-environment schemes provide diverse and valuable summer flower resources for pollinating insects (2018, background): “Eristalis tenax was the most frequently observed Syrphidae, as in previous studies in farmland areas (Rader et al. 2012).”
• Species richness of wild bees, but not the use of managed honeybees, increases fruit set of a pollinator-dependent crop (2015, background): “In agroecosystems where populations of wild bees were large, these unmanaged insects were estimated to fully pollinate crops (Kremen, Williams & Thorp 2002; Winfree et al. 2007; Rader et al. 2012).”
• Weeds for bees? A review (2015, background): “Wild and honeybees are the main pollinators of these crops (Klein et al. 2007; Garibaldi et al. 2013; Rader et al. 2012), and their pollination service to crops has been valued at 153 billion euros annually worldwide (Gallai et al. 2009), and around 22 billion euros annually for Europe (Gallai et…”
• Larger pollinators deposit more pollen on stigmas across multiple plant species—A meta‐analysis (2020, background): “Despite such species are often flower visitors (Grass et al., 2016) and verified pollinators (Rader et al., 2012, 2016), their importance in the pollination of a broad range of crops has largely been overlooked (Inouye et al., 2015; Larson et al., 2001; Woodcock et al., 2014).”
• FLIES AND FLOWERS III: ECOLOGY OF FORAGING AND POLLINATION (2015, background): “Rader et al. (2009) found that Eristalis tenax were as efficient as the honeybee and as effective (in terms of rate of flower visitation) for Brassica pollination, so it and other unmanaged pollinators were important for this mass-flowering crop (Rader et al. 2012).”