Kleijn, David and Bommarco, Riccardo and Potts, S. G. and et, al.
(2015).
Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation.
Nature communications. 6
, 1-8
[Journal article]
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Abstract
There is compelling evidence that more diverse ecosystems deliver greater benefits to people, and these ecosystem services have become a key argument for biodiversity conservation. However, it is unclear how much biodiversity is needed to deliver ecosystem services in a cost- effective way. Here we show that, while the contribution of wild bees to crop production is significant, service delivery is restricted to a limited subset of all known bee species. Across crops, years and biogeographical regions, crop-visiting wild bee communities are dominated by a small number of common species, and threatened species are rarely observed on crops. Dominant crop pollinators persist under agricultural expansion and many are easily enhanced by simple conservation measures, suggesting that cost- effective management strategies to promote crop pollination should target a different set of species than management strategies to promote threatened bees. Conserving the biological diversity of bees therefore requires more than just ecosystem-service-based arguments.
Authors/Creators: | Kleijn, David and Bommarco, Riccardo and Potts, S. G. and et, al. | ||||||
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Title: | Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation | ||||||
Series/Journal: | Nature communications (BIB12050572) | ||||||
Year of publishing : | 2015 | ||||||
Volume: | 6 | ||||||
Page range: | 1-8 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 8 | ||||||
Publisher: | Macmillan Publishers Limited | ||||||
ISSN: | 2041-1723 | ||||||
Language: | English | ||||||
Publication Type: | Journal article | ||||||
Refereed: | Yes | ||||||
Article category: | Scientific peer reviewed | ||||||
Version: | Published version | ||||||
Copyright: | Creative Commons: Attribution 4.0 | ||||||
Full Text Status: | Public | ||||||
Subjects: | (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 1 Natural sciences > 106 Biological Sciences (Medical to be 3 and Agricultural to be 4) > Ecology (A) Swedish standard research categories 2011 > 1 Natural sciences > 105 Earth and Related Environmental Sciences > Environmental Sciences (social aspects to be 507) | ||||||
Keywords: | biodiversity, conservation, pollinators | ||||||
URN:NBN: | urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-3248 | ||||||
Permanent URL: | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:slu:epsilon-e-3248 | ||||||
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ID Code: | 13100 | ||||||
Faculty: | NJ - Fakulteten för naturresurser och jordbruksvetenskap | ||||||
Department: | (NL, NJ) > Dept. of Ecology (S) > Dept. of Ecology | ||||||
Deposited By: | SLUpub Connector | ||||||
Deposited On: | 25 Feb 2016 10:00 | ||||||
Metadata Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2020 14:17 |
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