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Paul Caplat. Foto.

Paul Caplat

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Paul Caplat. Foto.

Bees increase seed set of wild plants while the proportion of arable land has a variable effect on pollination in European agricultural landscapes

Författare

  • Lina Herbertsson
  • Johan Ekroos
  • Matthias Albrecht
  • Ignasi Bartomeus
  • Péter Batáry
  • Riccardo Bommarco
  • Paul Caplat
  • Tim Diekötter
  • Jenny M. Eikestam
  • Martin H. Entling
  • Sunniva Farbu
  • Nina Farwig
  • Juan P. Gonzalez-Varo
  • Annika L. Hass
  • Andrea Holzschuh
  • Sebastian Hopfenmüller
  • Anna Jakobsson
  • Birgit Jauker
  • Anikó Kovács-Hostyánszki
  • Wera Kleve
  • William E. Kunin
  • Sandra A.M. Lindström
  • Sarah Mullen
  • Erik Öckinger
  • Theodora Petanidou
  • Simon G. Potts
  • Eileen F. Power
  • Maj Rundlöf
  • Kathrin Seibel
  • Virve Sõber
  • Annika Söderman
  • Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
  • Jane C. Stout
  • Tiit Teder
  • Teja Tscharntke
  • Henrik G. Smith

Summary, in English

Background and aims – Agricultural intensification and loss of farmland heterogeneity have contributed to population declines of wild bees and other pollinators, which may have caused subsequent declines in insect-pollinated wild plants. Material and methods – Using data from 37 studies on 22 pollinator-dependent wild plant species across Europe, we investigated whether flower visitation and seed set of insect-pollinated plants decline with an increasing proportion of arable land within 1 km. Key results – Seed set increased with increasing flower visitation by bees, most of which were wild bees, but not with increasing flower visitation by other insects. Increasing proportion of arable land had a strongly variable effect on seed set and flower visitation by bees across studies. Conclusion – Factors such as landscape configuration, local habitat quality, and temporally changing resource availability (e.g. due to mass-flowering crops or honey bee hives) could have modified the effect of arable land on pollination. While our results highlight that the persistence of wild bees is crucial to maintain plant diversity, we also show that pollen limitation due to declining bee populations in homogenized agricultural landscapes is not a universal driver causing parallel losses of bees and insect-pollinated plants.

Avdelning/ar

  • Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)
  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • Biologiska institutionen
  • Biodiversitet och bevarandevetenskap

Publiceringsår

2021

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

341-350

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Plant Ecology and Evolution

Volym

154

Issue

3

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Societe Royale de Botanique de Belgique

Ämne

  • Ecology

Nyckelord

  • Habitat loss
  • Landscape complexity
  • Landscape simplification
  • Pollinating insects
  • Pollination
  • Semi-natural

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Biodiversity and Conservation Science

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 2032-3913