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Mass-flowering crops dilute pollinator abundance in agricultural landscapes across Europe

Författare

  • Andrea Holzschuh
  • Matteo Dainese
  • Juan P. González-Varo
  • Sonja Mudri-Stojnić
  • Verena Riedinger
  • Maj Rundlöf
  • Jeroen Scheper
  • Jennifer B. Wickens
  • Victoria J. Wickens
  • Riccardo Bommarco
  • David Kleijn
  • Simon G. Potts
  • Stuart P M Roberts
  • Henrik G. Smith
  • Montserrat Vilà
  • Ante Vujić
  • Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter

Summary, in English

Mass-flowering crops (MFCs) are increasingly cultivated and might influence pollinator communities in MFC fields and nearby semi-natural habitats (SNHs). Across six European regions and 2 years, we assessed how landscape-scale cover of MFCs affected pollinator densities in 408 MFC fields and adjacent SNHs. In MFC fields, densities of bumblebees, solitary bees, managed honeybees and hoverflies were negatively related to the cover of MFCs in the landscape. In SNHs, densities of bumblebees declined with increasing cover of MFCs but densities of honeybees increased. The densities of all pollinators were generally unrelated to the cover of SNHs in the landscape. Although MFC fields apparently attracted pollinators from SNHs, in landscapes with large areas of MFCs they became diluted. The resulting lower densities might negatively affect yields of pollinator-dependent crops and the reproductive success of wild plants. An expansion of MFCs needs to be accompanied by pollinator-supporting practices in agricultural landscapes.

Publiceringsår

2016

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

1228-1236

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Ecology Letters

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Wiley-Blackwell

Ämne

  • Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use
  • Ecology

Nyckelord

  • Agri-environment schemes
  • Agricultural intensification
  • Biofuels
  • Crop pollination
  • Ecosystem services
  • Field boundaries
  • Landscape composition
  • Non-crop habitats
  • Semi-natural habitats
  • Spillover

Status

Published

Forskningsgrupp

  • Biodiversity and Conservation Science

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1461-023X