Delivery of crop pollination services is an insufficient argument for wild pollinator conservation

Flower plantings increase wild bee abundance and the pollination services provided to a pollination-dependent crop

(2014) Brett R. Blaauw et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Museum specimens reveal loss of pollen host plants as key factor driving wild bee decline in The Netherlands

(2014) Jeroen Scheper et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Hedgerow restoration promotes pollinator populations and exports native bees to adjacent fields

(2013) Lora A. Morandin et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Response diversity to land use occurs but does not consistently stabilise ecosystem services provided by native pollinators

(2013) Daniel P. Cariveau et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Environmental factors driving the effectiveness of European agri-environmental measures in mitigating pollinator loss - a meta-analysis

(2013) Jeroen Scheper et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Pollinator body size mediates the scale at which land use drives crop pollination services

(2013) Faye E. Benjamin et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance

(2013) L. A. Garibaldi et al.   SCIENCE

Hyperdominance in the Amazonian Tree Flora

(2013) H. ter Steege et al.   SCIENCE

Why flower visitation is a poor proxy for pollination: measuring single-visit pollen deposition, with implications for pollination networks and conservation

(2013) Caroline King et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Wildlife-friendly farming benefits rare birds, bees and plants

(2012) R. F. Pywell et al.   Biology Letters

What Is Conservation Science?

(2012) Peter Kareiva et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Biodiversity impacts ecosystem productivity as much as resources, disturbance, or herbivory

(2012) D. Tilman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Financial Costs of Meeting Global Biodiversity Conservation Targets: Current Spending and Unmet Needs

(2012) D. P. McCarthy et al.   SCIENCE

Unveiling cryptic species of the bumblebee subgenusBombus s. str.worldwide with COI barcodes (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

(2012) Paul H. Williams et al.   SYSTEMATICS AND BIODIVERSITY

Valuing pollination services to agriculture

(2011) Rachael Winfree et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Natural and within-farmland biodiversity enhances crop productivity

(2011) Luísa Gigante Carvalheiro et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Stability of pollination services decreases with isolation from natural areas despite honey bee visits

(2011) Lucas A. Garibaldi et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

High plant diversity is needed to maintain ecosystem services

(2011) Forest Isbell et al.   NATURE

Drastic historic shifts in bumble-bee community composition in Sweden

(2011) R. Bommarco et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Does conservation on farmland contribute to halting the biodiversity decline?

(2011) David Kleijn et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Intensification of agriculture, landscape composition and wild bee communities: A large scale study in four European countries

(2010) Violette Le Féon et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

General stabilizing effects of plant diversity on grassland productivity through population asynchrony and overyielding

(2010) A. Hector et al.   ECOLOGY

Valuing Common Species

(2010) K. J. Gaston   SCIENCE

Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines

(2010) S. H. M. Butchart et al.   SCIENCE

Effect of conservation management on bees and insect-pollinated grassland plant communities in three European countries

(2009) Péter Batáry et al.   AGRICULTURE ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

Questioning the ecosystem services argument for biodiversity conservation

(2008) Ben Ridder   BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION

Economic valuation of the vulnerability of world agriculture confronted with pollinator decline

(2008) Nicola Gallai et al.   ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

A RETROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS OF POLLEN HOST PLANT USE BY STABLE AND DECLINING BUMBLE BEE SPECIES

(2008) David Kleijn et al.   ECOLOGY

SPECIALIZED BEES FAIL TO DEVELOP ON NON-HOST POLLEN: DO PLANTS CHEMICALLY PROTECT THEIR POLLEN

(2008) Christophe J. Praz et al.   ECOLOGY