Impacts of honeybee density on crop yield: A meta‐analysis
By Orianne Rollin, L. Garibaldi. Journal of Applied Ecology, 2019
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1. There is increasing recognition that pollination deficits are limiting crop yields world-wide. However, management strategies for optimal insect pollination are still unclear for most crops. Current management focuses on providing high densi ties of honeybees, but recommended densities are highly variable, even within single crops and cultivars. 2. We performed an extensive literature search to record honeybee densities (col ony density and/or flower visitation rates) and crop productivity (fruit set, seed set, fruit weight and/or yield). Effect sizes were represented as the difference in crop productivity between the two most extreme levels of honeybee densities. 3. Out of 795 reviewed studies, only 22 analysed the effect of at least two levels of honeybee densities on crop productivity (reporting 60 resulting effect
Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics, Insect Science
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Citations in the corpus
- Rapeseed (Brassica napus): Processing, Utilization, and Genetic Improvement (2021, background): “In other studies, the pollinated crops displayed higher pod numbers, seeds per pod, and seed weight [276–278], but bees’ density is also an important key in crop productivity [279].”
- Pollination efficiency and foraging behaviour of honey bees and non‐Apis bees to sweet cherry (2019, background): “It is rather a matter of determining the optimal honey bee density for specific crops (Isaacs et al., 2017; Rollin & Garibaldi, 2019).”