Declines of managed honey bees and beekeepers in Europe

By S. Potts, Stuart P. M. Roberts, R. Dean, G. Marris, Mike A. Brown, Richard G. Jones, P. Neumann, Josef Settele. 2010

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

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Predicting the invasion risk by the alien bee-hawking Yellow-legged hornet Vespa velutina nigrithorax across Europe and other continents with niche models (2011, background): “V. velutina is considered as a fierce enemy of honey bees colonies in Kashmir (Shah and Shah, 1991; Abrol, 2006), Nepal (Ranabhat and Tamrakar, 2008) and China (Tan et al., 2007), as well as in Korea where the variant nigrithorax became established near Busan in the 2000s (Kim et al., 2006; Jung et ”
Protecting an ecosystem service: approaches to understanding and mitigating threats to wild insect pollinators (2016, background): “The rapid habitat transformation over 366 recent decades, predominantly due to anthropogenic activity, appears correlated with reported 367 declines in insect pollinator species richness (Potts et al., 2010a; Senapathi et al., 2015).”
Pollinator Diversity: Distribution, Ecological Function, and Conservation (2017, background): “The causes of these declines continue to be widely discussed, but loss of habitat from transformation of land use and changes in land management following agricultural intensification are the most likely reasons (Bartomeus et al. 2013, Goulson et al. 2015a, Ollerton et al. 2014, Potts et al. 2010a).”
On managing the red mason bee (Osmia bicornis) in apple orchards (2011, positive): “Coincidently, this phenomenon is accentuated by a declining number of apiculturists in many regions of the world (Potts et al. 2010), including our study region, Saxony, in the east of Germany (Wittmann et al. 2005).”
Bee declines driven by combined stress from parasites, pesticides, and lack of flowers (2015, background): “have decreased in Europe [25% loss of colonies in central Europe between 1985 and 2005 (5)] and markedly in North America [59% loss of colonies between 1947 and 2005 (6, 7)].”
Pollination services in the UK: how important are honeybees? (2011, methodology): “In spite of growing demand for pollination services and rising hive numbers, the OPC max of honeybees has declined by more than 50% since 1984 and will fall further if recent honeybee declines are considered (see Potts et al, 2010b).”
Sainfoin (Onobrychis viciifolia): a beneficial forage legume (2011, background): “Food source for bees and other pollinators The decline in wild and managed pollinators in the UK, Europe, the USA and parts of Asia has been widely reported (Biesmeijer et al., 2006; Cox-Foster et al., 2007; Williams and Osborne, 2009; Potts et al., 2010).”
Assessing bee species richness in two Mediterranean communities: importance of habitat type and sampling techniques (2011, background): “In recent years increasing concerns have been raised regarding the potential decline of pollinators, both in terms of their species richness and abundance (Steffan-Dewenter et al. 2005; Biesmeijer et al. 2006; Committee on the Status of Pollinators in North America 2007; Potts et al. 2010), although”
Food in a row: urban trees offer valuable floral resources to pollinating insects (2016, background): “Wild insect populations are declining in human altered landscapes likely due to reduced availability of food resources (Potts et al. 2010a).”
Weeds for bees? A review (2015, background): “In particular, the pollination service provided by several insect families is currently threatened because these insects are disappearing from agricultural landscapes (Potts et al. 2010a, b).”
Climate change increases the risk of invasion by the Yellow-legged hornet (2013, background): “This could be highly detrimental in a global context of ongoing declines of managed honeybees and beekeeper numbers in Europe (Potts et al., 2010) and an increasing risk of disruption in plant-pollinator mutualist interaction through global warming (Memmott et al., 2007).”
Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination (2015, neutral): “Journal of Pollination Ecology 12(8):63–94.”
Pollination services for apple are dependent on diverse wild bee communities (2016, background): “However, honey bee colonies in North America have suffered sharp declines in recent decades (Holden, 2006; Potts et al., 2009, 2010).”
Differences of floral resource use between honey bees and wild bees in an intensive farming system (2013, background): “(Biesmeijer et al., 2006; VanEngelsdorp et al., 2008; Potts et al., 2010; Cameron et al., 2011), with potential concern about the pollination of both entomophilous flowering crops and wild plant species.”