Does Low Biodiversity Resulting from Modern Agricultural Practice Affect Crop Pollination and Yield

By A. Richards. 2001

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

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Diversity of flower-visiting bees in cereal fields: effects of farming system, landscape composition and regional context (2006, background): “Additionally, ecological functions, such as predation of pest insects and pollination of crops, suffer from decreasing landscape heterogeneity (Thies & Tscharntke 1999; Richards 2001; Kremen, Williams & Thorp 2002; Tilman et al .”
Natural land cover drives pollinator abundance and richness, leading to reductions in pollen limitation in cotton agroecosystems (2016, background): “Although only a few of the world’s crops are completely dependent on animal pollination (Richards, 2001), most have been found to exhibit yield benefits from pollination service (reviewed in Klein et al.”
Tropical Forest Fragments Enhance Pollinator Activity in Nearby Coffee Crops (2004, background): “As agricultural intensification continues, however (Tilman et al. 2001), there is increasing evidence that wild pollinators are threatened by human land-use practices, exotic species, and other factors (Kearns et al. 1998; Kremen & Ricketts 2000; Richards 2001).”
Edge effects on flower-visiting insects in grapefruit plantations bordering premontane subtropical forest. (2005, background): “visitors, or how efficiently they pollinate the flowers (Richards 2001).”
The best wildflowers for wild bees (2019, background): “2006), loss of safe nesting locations in close proximity to floral resources (Richards 2001; Goulson 2003), and increased frequency of application of pesticides over the last 80 years (Johansen 1977; Brittain et al.”
The utility of crop genetic diversity in maintaining ecosystem services (2008, background): “Habitat loss has also selected for large-bodied pollinators able to forage over long distances (Richards, 2001).”
Pollination efficiency of the stingless bee Melipona subnitida on greenhouse sweet pepper (2005, background): “Increments in the number of seeds per fruit, after using bees as pollinators, are well documented in the literature for different crops (Williams et al., 1987; Free, 1993; Richards, 2001).”
Stingless bees in applied pollination: practice and perspectives (2006, background): “A wide variety of Corresponding author: E.J. Slaa, e.j.slaa@leeds.ac.uk bee species are known to be efficient and effective pollinators of many crops (e.g. Freitas and Paxton, 1998; Heard, 1999; Richards, 2001; Kremen et al., 2002).”
What do we know about the effects of landscape changes on plant–pollinator interaction networks? (2013, unknown): “…2007; Jha and Vandermeer, 2010) These changes may have important implications for pollination processes, with important effects even for crop production (Richards, 2001), as pollinators are important for more than 75% of the world’s most important agricultural plants species (Klein et al., 2007)”
Plant biodiversity enhances bees and other insect pollinators in agroecosystems. A review (2012, unknown): “At present, the area of land in the European Union and USA under entomophilous crops is increasing, and some researchers have predicted that we will soon be facing a serious shortage of both wild and managed bees (Richards 2001; Aizen et al. 2008).”
Creating patches of native flowers facilitates crop pollination in large agricultural fields: mango as a case study (2012, background): “These pollinators are critical for successful fruit set of mango flowers (Free & Williams, 1976, Anderson 1982, Richards 2001; Carvalheiro et al. 2010) and are sensitive to isolation from natural habitat, but sometimes also to pesticides (De Siqueira et al. 2008).”
Long-term global trends in crop yield and production reveal no current pollination shortage but increasing pollinator dependency. (2008, unknown): “, [16, 29–31]), but it does suggest that these phenomena recorded at local scale do not aggregate up to a global depression in yield by pollinator-dependent crops.”
Protecting an ecosystem service: approaches to understanding and mitigating threats to wild insect pollinators (2016, background): “1021 1022 is scarce (Richards, 2001; Steffan-Dewenter et al., 2002), but is needed if the requirement for 1023 additional floral or nesting resources is to be identified spatially and temporally (Figure 8).”