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Combined effects of global change pressures on animal-mediated pollination

González-Varo, J. P., Biesmeijer, J. C., Potts, S. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2045-980X, Schweiger, O., Smith, H. G., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Szentgyörgyi, H., Woyciechowski, M. and Vilà, M. (2013) Combined effects of global change pressures on animal-mediated pollination. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 28 (9). pp. 524-530. ISSN 0169-5347

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To link to this item DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2013.05.008

Abstract/Summary

Pollination is an essential process in the sexual reproduction of seed plants and a key ecosystem service to human welfare. Animal pollinators decline as a consequence of five major global change pressures: climate change, landscape alteration, agricultural intensification, non-native species, and spread of pathogens. These pressures, which differ in their biotic or abiotic nature and their spatiotemporal scales, can interact in nonadditive ways (synergistically or antagonistically), but are rarely considered together in studies of pollinator and/or pollination decline. Management actions aimed at buffering the impacts of a particular pressure could thereby prove ineffective if another pressure is present. Here, we focus on empirical evidence of the combined effects of global change pressures on pollination, highlighting gaps in current knowledge and future research needs.

Item Type:Article
Refereed:Yes
Divisions:Life Sciences > School of Agriculture, Policy and Development > Department of Sustainable Land Management > Centre for Agri-environmental Research (CAER)
ID Code:33257
Publisher:Elsevier

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