Impacts of neonicotinoid use on long-term population changes in wild bees in England
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Wild bee declines have been ascribed in part to neonicotinoid insecticides. While short-term laboratory studies on commercially bred species (principally honeybees and bumblebees) have identified sub-lethal effects, there is no strong evidence linking these insecticides to losses of the majority of wild bee species. We relate 18 years of UK national wild bee distribution data for 62 species to amounts of neonicotinoid use in oilseed rape. Using a multi-species dynamic Bayesian occupancy analysis, we find evidence of increased population extinction rates in response to neonicotinoid seed treatment use on oilseed rape. Species foraging on oilseed rape benefit from the cover of this crop, but were on average three times more negatively affected by exposure to neonicotinoids than non-crop foragers. Our results suggest that sub-lethal effects of neonicotinoids could scale up to cause losses of bee biodiversity. Restrictions on neonicotinoid use may reduce population declines.
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Current data suggest an overall pattern of decline in insect diversity and abundance.
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Data for bees and moths suggest the same declining trend as for other well-studied taxa.
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- Authors
- Woodcock, B. A., Isaac, N. J. B., Bullock, J. M., Roy, D. B., Garthwaite, D. G., Crowe, A., & Pywell, R. F.
- Affiliations
- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (GB)
- Fera Science (United Kingdom) (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Woodcock, Ben A.
- Venue
- Nature Communications
- Published
- 2016-08-16
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 12459-12459
- ISSN
- 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4990702
- OpenAlex
- W2515577027
- Cited by
- 550
- References
- 48
- Citations by year
- 2026: 41 · 2025: 53 · 2024: 73 · 2023: 52 · 2022: 58 · 2021: 71 · 2020: 44 · 2019: 58 · 2018: 47 · 2017: 47 · 2016: 6
- FWCI
- 57.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Nature Communications (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- NERC Open Research Archive (Natural Environment Research Council) (acceptedVersion)
- RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Funders
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (NE/N018125/1)
- Natural Environment Research Council (N018125, NE/N018125/1, NEC04932)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Insect Science › Insect and Pesticide Research
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics › Plant and animal studies
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Keywords
- neonicotinoids, wild bees, bee decline, oilseed rape, seed treatment, extinction rates, sublethal effects, bee biodiversity, non-target effects
- MeSH terms
- Neonicotinoids, Algorithms, Animals, Bayes Theorem, Bees, England, Geography, Insecticides, Population Dynamics, Species Specificity, Brassica rapa, Pollination
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