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Title: Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation
Authors: Kleijn, D
Winfree, R
Bartomeus, I
Keywords: agricultural management
bee
conservation planning
crop production
dominance
endangered species
persistence
pollination
species conservation
wild population
agricultural species
Article
bee
biodiversity
conservation biology
cost effectiveness analysis
crop
crop production
ecosystem
nonhuman
pollination
pollinator
wildlife conservation
animal
bee
biodiversity
economics
environmental protection
Apoidea
Animals
Bees
Biodiversity
Conservation of Natural Resources
Crops, Agricultural
Pollination
Issue Date: 2015
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
Citation: Kleijn, D, Winfree, R, Bartomeus, I (2015). Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation. Nature Communications 6 : 7414. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8414
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
Abstract: There is compelling evidence that more diverse ecosystems deliver greater benefits to people, and these ecosystem services have become a key argument for biodiversity conservation. However, it is unclear how much biodiversity is needed to deliver ecosystem services in a cost-effective way. Here we show that, while the contribution of wild bees to crop production is significant, service delivery is restricted to a limited subset of all known bee species. Across crops, years and biogeographical regions, crop-visiting wild bee communities are dominated by a small number of common species, and threatened species are rarely observed on crops. Dominant crop pollinators persist under agricultural expansion and many are easily enhanced by simple conservation measures, suggesting that cost-effective management strategies to promote crop pollination should target a different set of species than management strategies to promote threatened bees. Conserving the biological diversity of bees therefore requires more than just ecosystem-service-based arguments. © 2015 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.
Source Title: Nature Communications
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/180461
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8414
Rights: Attribution 4.0 International
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