Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination

Rader, Romina; Bartomeus, Ígnasi; A. Garibaldi, Lucas; P. D. Garratt, Michael; G. Howlett, Brad; Winfree, Rachael; A. Cunningham, Saul; M. Mayfield, Margaret; D. Arthur, Anthony; K.S. Andersson, Georg; Bommarco, Riccardo; Brittain, Claire; G. Carvalheiro, Luísa; P. Chacoff, Natacha; H. Entling, Martin; Foully, Benjamin; Magalhães Freitas, Breno; Gemmill‐Herren, Barbara; Ghazoul, Jaboury; R. Griffin, Sean; L. Gross, C.; Herbertsson, Lina; Herzog, Félix; Hipólito, Juliana; Jaggar, Sue; Jauker, Frank; Klein, Alexandra‐Maria; Kleijn, David; Krishnan, Smitha; Queiroz Lemos, Camila; Lindström, Sandra; Mandelik, Yael; Magalhães Monteiro, Victor; Nelson, Warrick; Anders Nilsson, L.; E. Pattemore, David; de Oliveira Pereira, Natália; Pisanty, Gideon; G. Potts, Simon; Reemer, Menno; Rundlöf, Maj; S. Sheffield, Cory; Scheper, Jeroen; Schüepp, Christof; G. Smith, Henrik; A. Stanley, Dara; C. Stout, Jane; Szentgyörgyi, Hajnalka; Taki, Hisatomo; Vergara, Carlos; Felipe Viana, Blandina; Woyciechowski, Michał

doi:10.1073/pnas.1517092112

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Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences • Nov 30, 2015

Authors:

Romina Rader

Ígnasi Bartomeus

Lucas A. Garibaldi

Abstract

Wild and managed bees are well documented as effective pollinators of global crops of economic importance. However, the contributions by pollinators other than bees have been little explored despite their potential to contribute to crop production and stability in the face of environmental change. N...

Subject

Pollinator

Pollination

Biology

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