SynthesisEcology letters2022
Animal pollination increases stability of crop yield across spatial scales.
Synthesis in Ecology letters, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 27 citations in OpenAlex.
- Loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Pooled it
- Air pollution disproportionately impairs beneficial invertebrates: a meta-analysis.Nature communications · 2024Pooled 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
- A review of remote sensing-based crop yield estimation: machine learning techniques and environmental, algorithmic, and hardware limitations.Frontiers in plant science · 2026Review
- The productivity-stability trade-off in global food systems.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Review
- Impacts of Climate Change and Mitigation Strategies for Some Abiotic and Biotic Constraints Influencing Fruit Growth and Quality.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Varroa destructor shapes the unique viral landscapes of the honey bee populations of the Azores archipelago.PLoS pathogens · 2024Article
- Bumblebee responses to variation in pollinator-attracting traits ofEcology and evolution · 2023Article
- Epidemiology of the MicrosporidiumInsects · 2022Article
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The benefits of animal pollination to crop yield are well known. In contrast, the effects of animal pollination on the spatial or temporal stability (the opposite of variability) of crop yield remain poorly understood. We use meta-analysis to combine variability information from 215 experimental comparisons between animal-pollinated and wind- or self-pollinated control plants in apple, oilseed rape and faba bean. Animal pollination increased yield stability (by an average of 32% per unit of yield) at between-flower, -plant, -plot and -field scales. Evidence suggests this occurs because yield benefits of animal pollination become progressively constrained closer to the maximum potential yield in a given context, causing clustering. The increase in yield stability with animal pollination is greatest when yield benefits of animal pollination are greatest, indicating that managing crop pollination to increase yield also increases yield stability. These additional pollination benefits have not yet been included in economic assessments but provide further justification for policies to protect pollinators.
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