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Landscape context shifts the balance of costs and benefits from wildflower borders on multiple ecosystem services

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Modeling the status, trends, and impacts of wild bee abundance in the United States

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Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination

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

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A global quantitative synthesis of local and landscape effects on wild bee pollinators in agroecosystems

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Native bees buffer the negative impact of climate warming on honey bee pollination of watermelon crops

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Insect Pollinated Crops, Insect Pollinators and US Agriculture: Trend Analysis of Aggregate Data for the Period 1992–2009

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

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Global growth and stability of agricultural yield decrease with pollinator dependence

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How much does agriculture depend on pollinators? Lessons from long-term trends in crop production

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The Haig‐Westoby Model Revisited

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Long-Term Global Trends in Crop Yield and Production Reveal No Current Pollination Shortage but Increasing Pollinator Dependency

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

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Landscape effects on crop pollination services: are there general patterns?

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A Survey of Honey Bee Colony Losses in the U.S., Fall 2007 to Spring 2008

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