ArticleNature ecology & evolution2022
Greater bee diversity is needed to maintain crop pollination over time.
Article in Nature ecology & evolution, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Seed mixes of intermediate grass:forb ratio create vegetation of greater ecosystem service provision in restorations.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2026Article
- Pesticides and habitat loss additively reduce wild bees in crop fields.Nature ecology & evolution · 2026Article
- Expression ofLife (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- North American bird declines are driven by reductions in common species.Science advances · 2025Article
- Acute and chronic pesticide exposure trigger fundamentally different molecular responses in bumble bee brains.BMC biology · 2025Article
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- Important Crop Pollinators Respond Less Negatively to Anthropogenic Land Use Than Other Animals.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Relationship Between Evolutionary Diversity and Aboveground Biomass During 150 Years of Natural Vegetation Regeneration in Temperate China.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- Nutritional position of managed honey bees during pollination of native plants by the melissopalynology method.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Insufficient pollinator visitation often limits yield in crop systems worldwide.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Article
- A pollinator crisis can decrease plant abundance despite pollinators being herbivores at the larval stage.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Key tropical crops at risk from pollinator loss due to climate change and land use.Science advances · 2023Article
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Abstract
The current biodiversity crisis underscores the need to understand how biodiversity loss affects ecosystem function in real-world ecosystems. At any one place and time, a few highly abundant species often provide the majority of function, suggesting that function could be maintained with relatively little biodiversity. However, biodiversity may be critical to ecosystem function at longer timescales if different species are needed to provide function at different times. Here we show that the number of wild bee species needed to maintain a threshold level of crop pollination increased steeply with the timescale examined: two to three times as many bee species were needed over a growing season compared to on a single day and twice as many species were needed over six years compared to during a single year. Our results demonstrate the importance of pollinator biodiversity to maintaining pollination services across time and thus to stable agricultural output.
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