TY - JOUR

T1 - A global quantitative synthesis of local and landscape effects on wild bee pollinators in agroecosystems

AU - Kennedy, Christina M

AU - Lonsdorf, Eric

AU - Neel, Maile C

AU - Williams, Neal M

AU - Ricketts, Taylor H

AU - Winfree, Rachael

AU - Bommarco, Riccardo

AU - Brittain, Claire

AU - Burley, Alana L

AU - Cariveau, Daniel

AU - Carvalheiro, Luísa G

AU - Chacoff, Natacha P

AU - Cunningham, Saul A

AU - Danforth, Bryan N

AU - Dudenhöffer, Jan-Hendrik

AU - Elle, Elizabeth

AU - Gaines, Hannah R

AU - Garibaldi, Lucas A

AU - Gratton, Claudio

AU - Greenleaf, Sarah S

AU - Holzschuh, Andrea

AU - Isaacs, Rufus

AU - Javorek, Steven K

AU - Jha, Shalene

AU - Klein, Alexandra M

AU - Krewenka, Kristin

AU - Mandelik, Yael

AU - Mayfield, Margaret M

AU - Morandin, Lora

AU - Neame, Lisa A

AU - Otieno, Mark

AU - Park, Mia

AU - Potts, Simon G

AU - Rundlöf, Maj

AU - Saez, Agustin

AU - Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf

AU - Taki, Hisatomo

AU - Viana, Blandina Felipe

AU - Westphal, Catrin

AU - Wilson, Julianna K

AU - Kremen, Claire

N1 - © 2013 Blackwell Publishing Ltd/CNRS.

PY - 2013/5

Y1 - 2013/5

N2 - Bees provide essential pollination services that are potentially affected both by local farm management and the surrounding landscape. To better understand these different factors, we modelled the relative effects of landscape composition (nesting and floral resources within foraging distances), landscape configuration (patch shape, interpatch connectivity and habitat aggregation) and farm management (organic vs. conventional and local-scale field diversity), and their interactions, on wild bee abundance and richness for 39 crop systems globally. Bee abundance and richness were higher in diversified and organic fields and in landscapes comprising more high-quality habitats; bee richness on conventional fields with low diversity benefited most from high-quality surrounding land cover. Landscape configuration effects were weak. Bee responses varied slightly by biome. Our synthesis reveals that pollinator persistence will depend on both the maintenance of high-quality habitats around farms and on local management practices that may offset impacts of intensive monoculture agriculture.

AB - Bees provide essential pollination services that are potentially affected both by local farm management and the surrounding landscape. To better understand these different factors, we modelled the relative effects of landscape composition (nesting and floral resources within foraging distances), landscape configuration (patch shape, interpatch connectivity and habitat aggregation) and farm management (organic vs. conventional and local-scale field diversity), and their interactions, on wild bee abundance and richness for 39 crop systems globally. Bee abundance and richness were higher in diversified and organic fields and in landscapes comprising more high-quality habitats; bee richness on conventional fields with low diversity benefited most from high-quality surrounding land cover. Landscape configuration effects were weak. Bee responses varied slightly by biome. Our synthesis reveals that pollinator persistence will depend on both the maintenance of high-quality habitats around farms and on local management practices that may offset impacts of intensive monoculture agriculture.

KW - Biology

KW - Agri-environment schemes

KW - Diversified farming system

KW - Ecologically scaled landscape index

KW - Ecosystem services

KW - Farm management

KW - Habitat fragmentation

KW - Landscape structure

KW - Organic farming

KW - Pollinators

KW - Ecosystems Research

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84876702493&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1111/ele.12082

DO - 10.1111/ele.12082

M3 - Journal articles

C2 - 23489285

VL - 16

SP - 584

EP - 599

JO - Ecology Letters

JF - Ecology Letters

SN - 1461-023X

IS - 5

ER -