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2. Protecting an Ecosystem Service: Approaches to Understanding and Mitigating Threats to Wild Insect Pollinators
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Gill, Richard J, Baldock, Katherine C R, Brown, Mark J F, Cresswell, James E, Dicks, Lynn V, Fountain, Michelle T, Garratt, Michael P D, Gough, Leonie A, Heard, Matt S, Holland, John M, Ollerton, Jeff, Stone, Graham N, Tang, Cuong Q, Vanbergen, Adam J, Vogler, Alfried P, Woodward, Guy, Arce, Andres N, Boatman, Nigel D, Brand-Hardy, Richard, Breeze, Tom D, Green, Mike, Hartfield, Chris M, O’Connor, Rory S, Osborne, Juliet L, Phillips, James, Sutton, Peter B, Potts, Simon G, and Natural Environment Research Council (NERC)
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Initiatives ,CROP POLLINATION ,Biodiversity & Conservation ,MIXED POLLEN SAMPLES ,Environmental Sciences & Ecology ,Conservation ,D700 ,BEE SPECIES RESPONSES ,Ecology and Environment ,BUMBLEBEE NEST DENSITY ,Pollinator populations and communities ,Landscape ,Engineered habitat ,Pollination demand ,FLOWER-VISITING INSECTS ,Science & Technology ,CLIMATE-CHANGE ,Ecology ,0602 Ecology ,Cabot Institute Food Security Research ,C100 ,AGRI-ENVIRONMENT SCHEMES ,Agriculture ,C200 ,Food security ,EVIDENCE-BASED CONSERVATION ,Policy ,PLANT REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS ,Ecological networks ,Biodiversity Conservation ,AGRICULTURAL LANDSCAPES ,Life Sciences & Biomedicine - Abstract
Insect pollination constitutes an ecosystem service of global importance, providing significant economic and aesthetic benefits as well as cultural value to human society, alongside vital ecological processes in terrestrial ecosystems. It is therefore important to understand how insect pollinator populations and communities respond to rapidly changing environments if we are to maintain healthy and effective pollinator services. This chapter considers the importance of conserving pollinator diversity to maintain a suite of functional traits and provide a diverse set of pollinator services. We explore how we can better understand and mitigate the factors that threaten insect pollinator richness, placing our discussion within the context of populations in predominantly agricultural landscapes in addition to urban environments. We highlight a selection of important evidence gaps, with a number of complementary research steps that can be taken to better understand: (i) the stability of pollinator communities in different landscapes in order to provide diverse pollinator services; (ii) how we can study the drivers of population change to mitigate the effects and support stable sources of pollinator services and (iii) how we can manage habitats in complex landscapes to support insect pollinators and provide sustainable pollinator services for the future. We advocate a collaborative effort to gain higher quality abundance data to understand the stability of pollinator populations and predict future trends. In addition, for effective mitigation strategies to be adopted, researchers need to conduct rigorous field testing of outcomes under different landscape settings, acknowledge the needs of end-users when developing research proposals and consider effective methods of knowledge transfer to ensure effective uptake of actions.
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3. Insect pollinators: linking research and policy
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Vanbergen, Adam J., Ambrose, Nick, Aston, David, Biesmeijer, Jacobus C., Bourke, Andrew, Breeze, Tom D., Brotherton, Peter, Brown, Mike, Chandler, Dave, Clook, Mark, Connolly, Christopher L., Costigan, Peter, Coulson, MiKe, Cresswell, James, Dean, Robin, Dicks, Lynn V., Felicioli, Antonio, Fojt, Otakar, Gallai, Nicola, Genersch, Elke, Godfray, Charles, Grieg-Gran, Maryanne, Halstead, Andrew, Harding, Debbie, Harris, Brian, Hartfield, Chris, Heard, Matt S., Herren, Barbara, Howarth, Julie, Ings, Thomas, Kleijn, David, Klein, Alexandra M., Kunin, Williams E., Lewis, Gavin, MacEwen, Alison, Maus, Christian, McIntosh, Liz, Millar, Neil S., Neumann, Peter, Ollerton, Jeff, Olschewski, Roland, Osborne, Juliet L., Paxton, Robert J., Pettis, Jeff, Phillipson, Belinda, Potts, Simon G., Pywell, Richard, Rasmont, Pierre, Roberts, Stuart P.M., Salles, Jean-Michel, Schweiger, Oliver, Sima, Peter, Thompson, Helen, Titera, Dalibor, Vaissière, Bernard, Van der Sluijs, Jeroen P., Webster, Sarah, Wentworth, Jonathan, Wright, Geraldine A., NERC, Scottish Government-SASA, Partenaires INRAE, British Beekeepers Association, University of Leeds, NCB Naturalis, School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia [Norwich] (UEA), School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading (UOR), Natural England, Food and Environment Research Agency, School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick [Coventry], Health and Safety Executive, University of Dundee, Dept Food Environm & Rural Affairs Defra, Syngenta Ltd, University of Exeter, The Red Beehive Co. Ltd, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge [UK] (CAM), Universita degli studi di Pisa, UK Science and Innovation Network, Ecole Nationale de Formation Agronomique de Toulouse (ENFA), Institute for Bee Research Hohen Neuendorf, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), Royal Horticultural Society, Polaris House, Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), National Farmers' Union, Food and Agriculture Organization, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), Alterra Green World Research (ALTERRA), Institut of Ecology, JSC International Ltd, Bayer Pharma AG [Berlin], Department of Neuroscience, Physiology & Pharmacology, University College of London [London] (UCL), Swiss Bee Research Centre, University of Northampton, Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL, School of Biological Sciences [Belfast], Queen's University [Belfast] (QUB), Institute for Biology, University of Bergen (UiB), United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Université de Mons (UMons), Laboratoire Montpelliérain d'Économie Théorique et Appliquée (LAMETA), Université Montpellier 1 (UM1)-Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)-Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques (Montpellier SupAgro)-Université de Montpellier (UM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier (Montpellier SupAgro), Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro)-Institut national d'enseignement supérieur pour l'agriculture, l'alimentation et l'environnement (Institut Agro), Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung = Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Koppert Biological Systems, Bee Research Institute, Abeilles & Environnement (UR 406 ), Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement (INRAE), Utrecht University [Utrecht], Parliamentary Office for Science and Technology, Newcastle University [Newcastle], Naturalis Biodiversity Center [Leiden], Abeilles et environnement (AE), and Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA)
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ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS ,[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences - Abstract
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- 2012
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4. A global-scale expert assessment of drivers and risks associated with pollinator decline
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Dicks, Lynn V, Breeze, Tom D, Ngo, Hien T, Senapathi, Deepa, An, Jiandong, Aizen, Marcelo A, Basu, Parthiba, Buchori, Damayanti, Galetto, Leonardo, Garibaldi, Lucas A, Gemmill-Herren, Barbara, Howlett, Brad G, Imperatriz-Fonseca, Vera L, Johnson, Steven D, Kovács-Hostyánszki, Anikó, Kwon, Yong Jung, Lattorff, H Michael G, Lungharwo, Thingreipi, Seymour, Colleen L, Vanbergen, Adam J, and Potts, Simon G
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2. Zero hunger ,Crops, Agricultural ,Europe ,13. Climate action ,North America ,Humans ,15. Life on land ,Pesticides ,Pollination - Abstract
Pollinator decline has attracted global attention and substantial efforts are underway to respond through national pollinator strategies and action plans. These policy responses require clarity on what is driving pollinator decline and what risks it generates for society in different parts of the world. Using a formal expert elicitation process, we evaluated the relative regional and global importance of eight drivers of pollinator decline and ten consequent risks to human well-being. Our results indicate that global policy responses should focus on reducing pressure from changes in land cover and configuration, land management and pesticides, as these were considered very important drivers in most regions. We quantify how the importance of drivers and risks from pollinator decline, differ among regions. For example, losing access to managed pollinators was considered a serious risk only for people in North America, whereas yield instability in pollinator-dependent crops was classed as a serious or high risk in four regions but only a moderate risk in Europe and North America. Overall, perceived risks were substantially higher in the Global South. Despite extensive research on pollinator decline, our analysis reveals considerable scientific uncertainty about what this means for human society.
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