SynthesisNature ecology & evolution2025
Loss of pollinator diversity consistently reduces reproductive success for wild and cultivated plants.
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16 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Effects of Biodiversity Loss on Freshwater Ecosystem Functions Increase With the Number of Stressors.Global change biology · 2025Pooled it
- An Assessment of Floral Visitor Diversity and Visitation Patterns Associated withPlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Vegetation Types and Plant Invasion Shape Pollination Interactions on a Tropical Island.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- 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
- Museum Genomics of an Important Swedish Pollinator Reveals Population Stability Across Time.Molecular ecology · 2026Article
- Species-specific brain transcriptomic responses to clothianidin and sulfoxaflor in pollinators.iScience · 2026Article
- Community Structure and Foraging Behavior of Flower-Visiting Insects in a Sweet Cherry Orchard in Eastern Gansu, China.Insects · 2026Article
- Comprehensive stage- and tissue-specific transcriptome of the global ecosystem service insect, marmalade hoverfly Episyrphus balteatus.Scientific data · 2026Article
- Impact of climate change on the suitable niches of an ornithophilous neotropical orchid (Elleanthus brasiliensis) and its pollen vectors.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- A curated and integrated dataset for exploring global bee-plant interactions.Scientific data · 2026Article
- The effect of drought stress on the limits and costs of plasticity in floral longevity in response to pollinator decline.American journal of botany · 2026Article
- The sexual reproductive strategy in clonal Scopolia carniolica is based on obligatory cross-pollination and self-incompatibility.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Successes and limitations of pretrained YOLO detectors applied to unseen time-lapse images for automated pollinator monitoring.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Heterostylous plants in an era of global change: a review on the consequences of habitat loss and fragmentation.AoB PLANTS · 2025Review
- Synergistic Effects of Flower Color and Mechanical Barriers on Pollinator Selection Within the Papilionoideae of Fabaceae.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Environmental drivers of wild bee reproductive performance across a South American dryland ecoregion.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
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Abstract
Pollination is a crucial ecosystem service, yet pollinator species diversity is declining as a result of factors such as climate change, habitat loss and agricultural intensification. While previous studies have often examined the extreme scenario of complete pollinator removal, showing negative impacts on plant reproductive success, we take a more realistic approach by focusing on the effects of decreasing pollinator diversity. Our global meta-analysis reveals a notable negative impact of reduced pollinator species diversity on plant reproductive success measures, such as seed set, fruit set and fruit weight. Notably, this effect varies across plant families, impacting both self-incompatible and self-compatible species. We also find that wild plant species suffer more than cultivated ones. Furthermore, the loss of invertebrate, nocturnal and wild pollinators has a more substantial impact than the loss of vertebrate, diurnal or managed pollinators. Overall, our findings consistently underscore the positive role of biodiversity in maintaining ecosystem functioning, highlighting the urgency of mitigating factors that lead to the decline in pollinator species diversity.
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