How much does agriculture depend on pollinators? Lessons from long-term trends in crop production.

By M. Aizen, L. Garibaldi, S. Cunningham, Alexandra-Maria Klein. Annals of Botany, 2009

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

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The global stock of domesticated honey bees is growing slower than agricultural demand for pollination. (2009, methodology): “P i Pitð1 2 diÞ and P i Pitdi , respectively, where Pit is the production (Mt) of crop i during year t and 0 % di % 1 is its degree of pollinator dependency [22, 23].”
On managing the red mason bee (Osmia bicornis) in apple orchards (2011, positive): “Meanwhile, evidence has been accumulating that both wild and commercially managed pollinators are in decline (Kremen et al. 2002; Winfree 2008; Aizen et al. 2009).”
Linking Land Cover Data and Crop Yields for Mapping and Assessment of Pollination Services in Europe (2013, background): “Global assessments of the benefits of pollination for crop production [5,6,22] usually link crop production statistics to plant-specific dependency on insect pollination in order to calculate the production deficit, which corresponds to the loss of production in absence of animal pollination.”
How well do we understand landscape effects on pollinators and pollination services (2012, background): “According to Aizen et al. (2009), agriculture has become more pollinator-dependent over time, and this trend is more pronounced in the developing world, which comprises almost all tropical regions, than the developed world.”
Pollination efficiency of wild bees and hoverflies provided to oilseed rape (2012, background): “At the same time, agriculture has become more pollinator-dependent because of a stronger increase in the area cultivated with flowering crops compared with nonflowering crops (Aizen et al., 2008, 2009; Aizen & Harder, 2009).”
A survey of managed honey bee colony losses in the Republic of South Africa–2009 to 2011 (2014, background): “Honey bees produce not only honey and wax and collect pollen, but they also play a critical role as pollinators of agricultural crops and natural vegetation (Delaplane, 2000; Aizen et al., 2009; Moritz et al., 2010; Potts et al., 2010a).”
Sown wildflower strips for insect conservation: a review (2011, background): “Thus, decreasing numbers of pollinators can both adversely affect crop production and threaten wild plant populations (Carreck & Williams, 1997; Aizen et al., 2009).”
Measuring the economic value of pollination services: principles, evidence and knowledge gaps. (2015, background): “, 2007), and 3 to 8% of global crop production (in tonnage) depends on insect pollination (Aizen et al., 2009).”
Influence of combined pesticide and parasite exposure on bumblebee colony traits in the laboratory (2014, background): “Insect pollination services are particularly important for safeguarding agricultural productivity (Klein et al. 2007; Aizen et al. 2009; Garibaldi et al. 2011a) and ecosystem stability (Bascompte, Jordano & Olesen 2006; Fontaine et al. 2006).”
Weeds for bees? A review (2015, background): “2012) of 60 crops suggested 266 billion euros per year worldwide, and an estimated 3–8 % of world crop production could be lost in the absence of pollinators (Aizen et al. 2009).”
How many flowering plants are pollinated by animals (2011, background): “…for crop plants, which constitute 0.1% of all fl owering plant species but have generated several recent reviews on animal pollination (Klein et al. 2007, Aizen et al. 2009, Gallai et al. 2009), there has been no systematic attempt to assess the fraction of the global fl ora that uses pollinators.”
Dynamic modelling of honey bee (Apis mellifera) colony growth and failure (2013, background): “As a consequence there is some concern that declining bee populations will impact horticultural productivity, as well as the obvious consequences for the honey industry (Aizen et al., 2009; Allen-Wardell et al., 1998).”