Safeguarding pollinators and their values to human well-being

By S. Potts, V. Imperatriz-Fonseca, H. Ngo, M. Aizen, J. Biesmeijer, T. Breeze, L. Dicks, L. Garibaldi, R. Hill, Josef Settele and 1 more. Nature, 2016

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

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Resilience and food security: rethinking an ecological concept (2017, background): “Other environmental drivers of both the quantity and quality of crop yields include pests and pathogens, and increasingly important chronic factors include rising salinity, deteriorating soils, new pests and decreasing pollinators (Lal 2009; Jaggard, Qi & Ober 2010; Potts et al. 2016).”
Significance of Apoidea as Main Pollinators. Ecological and Economic Impact and Implications for Human Nutrition (2020, background): “Thus, the global decline in honey bee populations, as well as the fact that managing honey bees is more difficult than it used to be, will negatively influence the reproduction and population dynamics of plants in natural areas [79], and, consequently, the ecosystem services provided by such plants,”
Beyond flowers: including non-floral resources in bee conservation schemes (2020, background): “Here we focus on the threats to and conservation of bees as important pollinators of many wild and crop plant species (Klein et al. 2007; Ollerton et al. 2011; Potts et al. 2016).”
Monitoring insect pollinators and flower visitation: The effectiveness and feasibility of different survey methods (2019, background): “…abundance and diversity to facilitate the production of long-term, standardised national and international datasets in accord with international science and policy needs identified by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (Potts et al., 2016).”
Pervasive human-driven decline of life on Earth points to the need for transformative change (2019, neutral): “Loss of animal pollinators affects more than 75% of global food crop types, risking US$235 billion to 577 billion of global crop output annually (10).”
Further evidence for a global decline of the entomofauna (2020, background): “Thriving insect communities thus contribute to food security, poverty alleviation and human well‐being (Potts et al. 2016; Wyckhuys et al. 2020).”
Nesting habitat of ground‐nesting bees: a review (2020, background): “, 2011), they are threatened by a number of anthropogenic disturbances including habitat loss, reductions in floral resources, pesticide use, and spillover of parasites and pathogens from managed bee species (Potts et al., 2016).”
Protected areas do not mitigate biodiversity declines: A case study on butterflies (2018, neutral): “…loss (Sang, Teder, Helm, & Pärtel, 2010), frag‐ mentation (Hanski, 2015; Krauss et al., 2010), habitat degradation (Stefanescu, Peñuelas, & Filella, 2009) or climate change (Oliver et al., 2015; Schweiger, Settele, Kudrna, Klotz, & Kühn, 2008; Settele, Bishop, & Potts, 2016; Settele et al., 2008).”
Safe and just Earth system boundaries (2023, positive): “In working lands, enhancing functional integrity secures access to pollination, pest control, and soil protection services which underpin food and nutritional security (Garibaldi et al. 2011, 2020; ChaplinKramer et al. 2014; Potts et al. 2016; Kremen and Merenlender 2018; Dainese et al. 2019).”