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Pollinator diversity and crop pollination services are at risk
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In a recent opinion article in TREE, Ghazoul [1] questionsthe existence of a global pollinator crisis and, in doing so,raises some important points about the uncertainty ofhuman dependence upon pollination services. We agreewith Ghazoul [1] that much uncertainty remains regard-ing pollinator–pollination declines. However, we thinkthat his assessment draws biased conclusions for polli-nator declines from existing studies, misrepresents theextent of agricultural reliance on animal pollination, andunderestimates the extent of pollination reduction inintensive monocultures.In his article [1], Ghazoul suggests that a pollinatorcrisisisdrivenmainlybyreporteddeclinesofhoneybeesinNorth America, and bumblebees and butterflies inEurope. However, local and regional declines of solitarywild bees, bumblebees and honeybees owing to habitatloss, agricultural intensification and pesticide use havebeen reported in both Europe and America [2–5], and theimpact of habitat loss, measured by species–area relation-ships, is much stronger for native bees than for otherinsect groups [6]. For genetic reasons alone, bees are moreextinction prone than are other taxa, because single-locussex determination makes them particularly sensitive tothe effects of small population size through the productionof sterile diploid males [7].Pollinators,otherthanhoneybees and bumblebees, have many Red Data Bookentries (e.g. for 11 European countries, an average of27.4% of the national bee fauna is listed
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- Steffan-Dewenter, I., Potts, S. G., & Packer, L.
- Venue
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2005-12
- Volume
- 20
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 651-652
- ISSN
- 0169-5347 (ISSN-L)
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- W1977819884
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- 468
- References
- 14
- FWCI
- 17.63
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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