Pollination services in the UK: how important are honeybees?

By T. Breeze, A. Bailey, K. Balcombe, S. Potts. 2011

410 citations recorded by the source corpus.

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

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In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Dave Goulson
2. John M. Holland
3. S. Potts
4. Richard F. Pywell
5. T. Wood
6. W. Meek
7. G. Ballantyne
8. P. Willmer

In Genetics

1. P. Willmer
2. S. Potts
3. Richard F. Pywell
4. Dave Goulson
5. S. Nicolson
6. L. Carvalheiro
7. N. E. Raine
8. Richard J. Gill

In Insect Science

1. Dave Goulson
2. John M. Holland
3. T. Wood
4. S. Potts
5. P. Willmer
6. Richard F. Pywell
7. S. Nicolson
8. W. Meek

Citations in the corpus

• POLLINATION DEFICITS IN UK APPLE ORCHARDS (2014, positive): “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).”
• Crop flower visitation by honeybees, bumblebees and solitary bees: Behavioural differences and diversity responses to landscape (2013, background): “Independent of the relative importance of different taxa, the delivery of crop pollination services is likely to be greatest where diverse pollinator assemblages exist (Hoehn et al., 2008; Breeze et al., 2011; Ollerton et al., 2012).”
• Effects of neonicotinoids and fipronil on non-target invertebrates (2014, neutral): “Apart from its cultural and honey production value, the honeybee is the most tractable pollinator species and critical for the production of many of the world ’ s most important crops (Klein et al. 2007; Breeze et al. 2011).”
• Insights from measuring pollen deposition: quantifying the pre-eminence of bees as flower visitors and effective pollinators (2017, background): “Wild bees are also vital, and often better than Apis, as crop pollinators, with the importance of honeybees often over-emphasised in the past (see Breeze et al. 2011; Garibaldi et al. 2013).”
• Creating patches of native flowers facilitates crop pollination in large agricultural fields: mango as a case study (2012, background): “For many crop species, however, managed pollinators are unsuitable (e.g. Kevan 1999) or insufficient when acting alone (Greenleaf & Kremen 2006; Carvalheiro et al. 2010; Breeze et al. 2011).”
• Pollinator-friendly management does not increase the diversity of farmland bees and wasps (2015, background): “…even in contemporary intensive farming systems (Winfree et al., 2008), and enhance fruit set regardless of honeybee abundance (Garibaldi et al., 2013), leading to suggestions that the role of honeybees as agricultural pollinators has been overstated (Breeze et al., 2011; Ollerton et al., 2012).”