Flower plantings increase wild bee abundance and the pollination services provided to a pollination-dependent crop

By B. Blaauw, R. Isaacs. 2014

601 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. C. Kremen
2. R. Isaacs
3. Richard J. Gill
4. B. Blaauw
5. Dave Goulson
6. S. Potts
7. J. Ollerton
8. Hillary Sardiñas

In Insect Science

1. Richard J. Gill
2. R. Isaacs
3. C. Kremen
4. S. Potts
5. B. Blaauw
6. J. Ollerton
7. Dave Goulson
8. F. Sánchez‐Bayo

In Plant Science

1. R. Isaacs
2. C. Kremen
3. J. Ollerton
4. S. Potts
5. B. Blaauw
6. Vincent Bretagnolle
7. Richard J. Gill
8. Dave Goulson

Citations in the corpus

• Bee declines driven by combined stress from parasites, pesticides, and lack of flowers (2015, background): “This in turn increases pollination to nearby crops and provides an economic incentive to farmers growing insectpollinated crops (149).”
• The potential of different semi-natural habitats to sustain pollinators and natural enemies in European agricultural landscapes (2019, background): “In fact, tailored measures to enhance the availability of floral resources according to dietary requirements of target groups of beneficial insects can be highly effective to promote pest control (Tschumi et al., 2015) and pollination services (Blaauw and Isaacs, 2014).”
• Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation (2015, unknown): “Knowledge of the economic contribution of wild pollinators to farm income points out the potential for win–win situations, as it allows for the identification of cost-effective measures that raise both crop yields and promote wild pollinator populations 25 .”
• Pollination services from field-scale agricultural diversification may be context-dependent (2015, background): “levels documented in patches of natural habitats (but see Morandin and Kremen, 2013; Blaauw and Isaacs, 2014) while simultaneously conserving pollinator species (Garibaldi et al.”
• Safeguarding pollinators and their values to human well-being (2016, unknown): “There are potential trade-offs between maximising crop yield through conventional means and improving conditions for pollinator biodiversity with enhanced delivery of pollination services 57 .”
• Pollinator-friendly management does not increase the diversity of farmland bees and wasps (2015, background): “Increasing the number of pollinators is important, as larger wild bee populations can significantly increase the quality of the pollination service provided (Blaauw and Isaacs, 2014).”
• Do sown flower strips boost wild pollinator abundance and pollination services in a spring-flowering crop? A case study from UK cider apple orchards (2017, background): “As feral colonies are rare in temperate regions (Jaffé et al. 2010), 474 honeybee densities are primarily determined by the number of hives present in the 475 surrounding landscape, rather than the availability of floral resources or nest sites 476 (Blaauw & Isaacs 2014).”
• Pollination reservoirs for wild bee habitat enhancement in cropping systems: a review (2017, background): “Four studies, Carvalheiro et al. (2012), Morandin and Kremen (2013a), Blaauw and Isaacs (2014a) and Venturini et al. (in press), highlight one of the largest gaps in the pollinator habitat enhancement literature.”
• Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers (2019, background): “For example, flower and grassland strips established at the field edge enhance the abundance of wild pollinators (Blaauw and Isaacs, 2014; Hopwood, 2008), and rotation of crops with clover boosts the abundance and diversity of bumblebees (Ekroos et al.”
• Massively Introduced Managed Species and Their Consequences for Plant–Pollinator Interactions (2017, background): “…on the botanical composition of sown wildflower strips which should be tailored to the identity of pollinators and their ecological requirements (Blaauw and Isaacs, 2014; Blackmore and Goulson, 2014; Garratt et al., 2014; Tschumi et al., 2016) without systematically overlooking the need to…”
• Wildflower plantings enhance the abundance of natural enemies and their services in adjacent blueberry fields (2015, background): “As demonstrated in Blaauw and Isaacs (2014a), throughout the duration of this study, the percent cover and the density per square meter of seeded plants was greater within the wildflower plantings than in the control mown grass field margins, and it increased over time.”