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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-08974-9
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- UK Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Natural Environment Research Council
- Defra
- Scottish Government [WC1101]
- JNCC
- Welsh Government
- Scottish Government
- UK Pollinator Monitoring and Research Partnership [BE0125]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) [NE/N018125/1LTS-M]
- Natural Environment Research Council as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability [NE/R016429/1]
- NERC [NE/N018125/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Pollination is a critical ecosystem service underpinning the productivity of agricultural systems across the world. Wild insect populations provide a substantial contribution to the productivity of many crops and seed set of wild flowers. However, large-scale evidence on species-specific trends among wild pollinators are lacking. Here we show substantial inter-specific variation in pollinator trends, based on occupancy models for 353 wild bee and hoverfly species in Great Britain between 1980 and 2013. Furthermore, we estimate a net loss of over 2.7 million occupied 1 km(2) grid cells across all species. Declines in pollinator evenness suggest that losses were concentrated in rare species. In addition, losses linked to specific habitats were identified, with a 55% decline among species associated with uplands. This contrasts with dominant crop pollinators, which increased by 12%, potentially in response agri-environment measures. The general declines highlight a fundamental deterioration in both wider biodiversity and non-crop pollination services.
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