SynthesisNature communications2019
Meta-analysis reveals that pollinator functional diversity and abundance enhance crop pollination and yield.
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49 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Pooled it
- Global meta-analysis shows reduced quality of food crops under inadequate animal pollination.Nature communications · 2023Pooled it
- Animal pollination increases stability of crop yield across spatial scales.Ecology letters · 2022Pooled it
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- Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Generalist and Specialist Pollinators Facing Plant Diversity Changes.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- First report of the comparative effectiveness of insect visitors for cranberry pollination and yield in Chile.BMC plant biology · 2026Article
- An integrated social-ecological-evolutionary-phenotypic (SEEP) approach to understanding animal responses to urbanization.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Comparison of the Pollen Deposition and Carrying Efficiency of Four Wild Pollinators for Oil-Seed Camellia Trees.Insects · 2026Article
- Pesticides and habitat loss additively reduce wild bees in crop fields.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Functional diversity of Brazilian bees: revealing the unique patterns of the Neotropics.Oecologia · 2025Article
- Pollination of Enclosed Avocado Trees by Blow Flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) and a Hover Fly (Diptera: Syrphidae).Insects · 2025Article
- Species abundances surpass richness effects in the biodiversity-ecosystem function relationship across marine fishes.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Enhancing Alfalfa (Biology · 2025Article
- Evaluating LiDAR-Derived Structural Metrics for Predicting Bee Assemblages in Managed Forests.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Tracking pollen tube and ovule developmentAoB PLANTS · 2025Article
- Trade-off between pollinator-wildflower diversity & grassland yields.npj biodiversity · 2025Article
- Thermal limits of bumblebees and honeybees are modulated by different functional traits: predictions of a mechanistic model.PloS one · 2025Article
- Functional diversity of ground beetles improved aphid control but did not increase crop yields on European farms.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2024Article
- Toward a Functional Trait Approach to Bee Ecology.Ecology and evolution · 2024Review
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Abstract
How insects promote crop pollination remains poorly understood in terms of the contribution of functional trait differences between species. We used meta-analyses to test for correlations between community abundance, species richness and functional trait metrics with oilseed rape yield, a globally important crop. While overall abundance is consistently important in predicting yield, functional divergence between species traits also showed a positive correlation. This result supports the complementarity hypothesis that pollination function is maintained by non-overlapping trait distributions. In artificially constructed communities (mesocosms), species richness is positively correlated with yield, although this effect is not seen under field conditions. As traits of the dominant species do not predict yield above that attributed to the effect of abundance alone, we find no evidence in support of the mass ratio hypothesis. Management practices increasing not just pollinator abundance, but also functional divergence, could benefit oilseed rape agriculture.
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