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Invasive bees and their impact on agriculture
- Source :
- Advances in Ecological Research, Special Issue 'The Future of Agricultural Landscapes', Advances in Ecological Research, Special Issue 'The Future of Agricultural Landscapes', 63, pp.49-92, 2020, 0065-2504. ⟨10.1016/bs.aecr.2020.08.001⟩, RID-UNRN (UNRN), Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, instacron:UNRN
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2020.
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Abstract
- Fil: Aizen, Marcelo A. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente; Argentina. Fil: Aizen, Marcelo A. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnica. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente; Argentina. Fil: Arbetman, Marina P. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente; Argentina. Fil: Arbetman, Marina P. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnica. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente; Argentina. Fil: Chacoff, Natacha P. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Instituto de Ecología Regional; Argentina. Fil: Chalcoff, Vanina R. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente; Argentina. Fil: Chalcoff, Vanina R. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnica. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente; Argentina. Fil: Feinsinger, Peter. Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. Facultad de Ciencias Naturales e Instituto Miguel Lillo. Centro de Estudio y Aplicación del Ciclo de Indagación; Argentina. Fil: Garibaldi, Lucas A. Universidad Nacional de Río Negro. Instituto de Investigaciones en Recursos Naturales, Agroecología y Desarrollo Rural. Río Negro, Argentina. Fil: Garibaldi, Lucas A. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Instituto de Investigaciones en Recursos Naturales, Agroecología y Desarrollo Rural. Río Negro, Argentina. Fil: Harder, Lawrence D. University of Calgary. Department of Biological Sciences; Canada. Fil: Morales, Carolina L. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente; Argentina. Fil: Morales, Carolina L. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnica. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente; Argentina. Fil: Sáez, Agustín. Universidad Nacional del Comahue. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente; Argentina. Fil: Sáez, Agustín. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnica. Instituto de Investigaciones en Biodiversidad y Medioambiente; Argentina. Fil: Vanbergen, Adam J. Université de Bourgogne Franche-Comté. AgroSup Dijon; Francia. Increasing honey demand and global coverage of pollinator-dependent crops within the context of global pollinator declines have accelerated international trade in managed bees. Bee introductions into agricultural landscapes outside their native ranges have triggered noteworthy invasions, especially of the African honey bee in the Americas and the European bumble bee Bombus terrestris in southern South America, New Zealand, Tasmania, and Japan. Such invasions have displaced native bees via competition, pathogen transmission, and invaders' capacity to exploit anthropogenic landscapes. At high abundance, invasive bees can degrade the mutualistic nature of many of the flower-pollinator interactions they usurp, either directly by affecting flower performance or indirectly by reducing the pollination effectiveness of other flower visitors, with negative consequences for crop pollination and yield. We illustrate such effects with empirical examples, focusing particularly on interactions in the Americas between B. terrestris and raspberry and between the African honey bee and coffee. Despite high bee abundance and flower visitation in crops, theoretical and empirical evidence suggests that agricultural landscapes of pollinator-dependent crops dominated by invasive bees will be less productive than landscapes with more diverse pollinator assemblages. Safeguarding future crop yield and aiding the transition to more sustainable agricultural landscapes and practices require we address this impact of invasive bees. Actions include tighter regulation of the trade in bees to discourage further invasions, reducing invasive bee densities and dominance, and active enhancement of ecological infrastructure from field to landscape scales to promote wild bee abundance and diversity for sustained delivery of crop pollination services.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Crop Pollination
mutualism costs
African Honey Bee
Pollination
media_common.quotation_subject
coffee
Bee Abundance
Context (language use)
Agricultura (General)
Apis Mellifera
Coffee
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Competition (biology)
Invasive Bees
Raspberry
crop pollination
03 medical and health sciences
Mutualism Costs
apis mellifera
Pollinator
Biodiversidad y Conservación
bee abundance
Dominance (ecology)
bee trade
030304 developmental biology
media_common
2. Zero hunger
0303 health sciences
invasive bees
Bombus Terrestris
biology
business.industry
Agroforestry
Bee Trade
Honey bee
Ecología
biology.organism_classification
Geography
Agriculture
Bombus terrestris
[SDE]Environmental Sciences
bombus terrestris
business
african honey bee
raspberry
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Advances in Ecological Research, Special Issue 'The Future of Agricultural Landscapes', Advances in Ecological Research, Special Issue 'The Future of Agricultural Landscapes', 63, pp.49-92, 2020, 0065-2504. ⟨10.1016/bs.aecr.2020.08.001⟩, RID-UNRN (UNRN), Universidad Nacional de Río Negro, instacron:UNRN
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....a8cc26de91116655e43cfebc8beb837e