Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers.

By S. Potts, J. Biesmeijer, C. Kremen, P. Neumann, Oliver Schweiger, W. Kunin. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2010

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

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Management trade‐offs on ecosystem services in apple orchards across Europe: Direct and indirect effects of organic production (2018, background): “The intensification of agriculture also threatens the delivery of pollination services from the wild pollinator community (Klein, Fornoff, Mupepele, & Boreux, 2018; Potts et al., 2010).”
Where have all the beetles gone? Long‐term study reveals carabid species decline in a nature reserve in Northern Germany (2019, background): “These products even have an immense negative effect on other insects (including those providing biological control, e.g. carabids) and thus are one driver of biodiversity loss (Purtauf et al., 2005; Scherney, 1959; Thiele, 1977).”
Flower plantings increase wild bee abundance and the pollination services provided to a pollination-dependent crop (2014, background): “However, wild insect pollinators and the pollination services they provide have declined in agricultural landscapes in some regions (Biesmeijer et al. 2006; Potts et al. 2010).”
The city as a refuge for insect pollinators (2017, background): “Loss of habitat has been a long-term contributor to pollinator declines (Goulson et al. 2008; Potts et al. 2010; Vanbergen et al. 2013; Harrison & Winfree 2015); technological advances in agricultural efficiencies are increasingly homogenizing farmlands (Benton et al. 2003).”
Impact of landscape alteration and invasions on pollinators: a meta‐analysis (2012, background): “For example, there is high concern regarding the impact these factors pose on pollinators and on the ecosystem service they provide (Buchmann & Nabhan 1996; Biesmeijer et al. 2006; Goulson, Lye & Darvill 2008; Carvalheiro et al. 2010; Potts et al. 2010).”
POLLINATION DEFICITS IN UK APPLE ORCHARDS (2014, neutral): “Given the rising costs of honey bee hire and ongoing decline in their numbers across Europe (Potts et al. 2010b), the importance of wild insect pollinators for apple production may be increasing (Breeze et al. 2011).”
Decline of bumble bees in northeastern North America, with special focus on Bombus terricola (2018, background): “Herbicides kill weeds and wildflowers used as bee forage, making them unavailable for bees (Goulson et al., 2015, Potts et al., 2010).”
Towards a U.S. national program for monitoring native bees (2020, neutral): “including for bees and other pollinators (Biesmeijer et al., 2006; Potts et al., 2010; Powney et al., 2019).”
A non-parametric bootstrap-data envelopment analysis approach for environmental policy planning and management of agricultural efficiency in EU countries (2017, background): “However, it can have significant negative impacts on the environment and ESs (Tilman et al., 2001; Moss, 2008; Potts et al., 2010; Matson, 1997), or even negative effects on sustained crop productivity (Matson, 1997; Dale and Polasky, 2007).”
Short-term responses of native bees to livestock and implications for managing ecosystem services in grasslands (2012, background): “…exposure to parasites and pathogens, the overuse of insecticides, the introduction of non-native species, such as the honey bee, Apis mellifera, and habitat destruction and degradation associated with human activities, such as agriculture (Thomson 2004, Winfree et al. 2009, Potts et al. 2010).”
The role of resources and risks in regulating wild bee populations. (2011, background): “While honey bees are the primary managed pollinator in agriculture, their decline in some countries (3, 86) has focused considerable attention on native, unmanaged bee populations as major contributors to agricultural pollination (41, 133).”
Crop management modifies the benefits of insect pollination in oilseed rape (2015, background): “landscapes where pollination service is more degraded (Potts et al., 2010).”
Species richness of wild bees, but not the use of managed honeybees, increases fruit set of a pollinator-dependent crop (2015, background): “A leading hypothesis for declines in wild bee populations is anthropogenic land-use change and subsequent loss of floral and nesting resources (National Research Council 2007; Potts et al. 2010; Burkle, Marlin & Knight 2013).”