Article
Ecology
Alfonso Allen-Perkins, Ainhoa Magrach, Matteo Dainese, Lucas A. Garibaldi, David Kleijn, Romina Rader, James R. Reilly, Rachael Winfree, Ola Lundin, Carley M. McGrady, Claire Brittain, David J. Biddinger, Derek R. Artz, Elizabeth Elle, George Hoffman, James D. Ellis, Jaret Daniels, Jason Gibbs, Joshua W. Campbell, Julia Brokaw, Julianna K. Wilson, Keith Mason, Kimiora L. Ward, Knute B. Gundersen, Kyle Bobiwash, Larry Gut, Logan M. Rowe, Natalie K. Boyle, Neal M. Williams, Neelendra K. Joshi, Nikki Rothwell, Robert L. Gillespie, Rufus Isaacs, Shelby J. Fleischer, Stephen S. Peterson, Sujaya Rao, Theresa L. Pitts-Singer, Thijs Fijen, Virginie Boreux, Maj Rundlof, Blandina Felipe Viana, Alexandra-Maria Klein, Henrik G. Smith, Riccardo Bommarco, Luisa G. Carvalheiro, Taylor H. Ricketts, Jaboury Ghazoul, Smitha Krishnan, Faye E. Benjamin, Joao Loureiro, Silvia Castro, Nigel E. Raine, Gerard Arjen de Groot, Finbarr G. Horgan, Juliana Hipolito, Guy Smagghe, Ivan Meeus, Maxime Eeraerts, Simon G. Potts, Claire Kremen, Daniel Garcia, Marcos Minarro, David W. Crowder, Gideon Pisanty, Yael Mandelik, Nicolas J. Vereecken, Nicolas Leclercq, Timothy Weekers, Sandra A. M. Lindstrom, Dara A. Stanley, Carlos Zaragoza-Trello, Charlie C. Nicholson, Jeroen Scheper, Carlos Rad, Evan A. N. Marks, Lucie Mota, Bryan Danforth, Mia Park, Antonio Diego M. Bezerra, Breno M. Freitas, Rachel E. Mallinger, Fabiana Oliveira da Silva, Bryony Willcox, Davi L. Ramos, Felipe D. da Silva e Silva, Amparo Lazaro, David Alomar, Miguel A. Gonzalez-Estevez, Hisatomo Taki, Daniel P. Cariveau, Michael P. D. Garratt, Diego N. Nabaes Jodar, Rebecca I. A. Stewart, Daniel Ariza, Matti Pisman, Elinor M. Lichtenberg, Christof Schueepp, Felix Herzog, Martin H. Entling, Yoko L. Dupont, Charles D. Michener, Gretchen C. Daily, Paul R. Ehrlich, Katherine L. W. Burns, Montserrat Vila, Andrew Robson, Brad Howlett, Leah Blechschmidt, Frank Jauker, Franziska Schwarzbach, Maike Nesper, Tim Diekoetter, Volkmar Wolters, Helena Castro, Hugo Gaspar, Brian A. Nault, Isabelle Badenhausser, Jessica D. Petersen, Teja Tscharntke, Vincent Bretagnolle, D. Susan Willis Chan, Natacha Chacoff, Georg K. S. Andersson, Shalene Jha, Jonathan F. Colville, Ruan Veldtman, Jeferson Coutinho, Felix J. J. A. Bianchi, Louis Sutter, Matthias Albrecht, Philippe Jeanneret, Yi Zou, Anne L. Averill, Agustin Saez, Amber R. Sciligo, Carlos H. Vergara, Elias H. Bloom, Elisabeth Oeller, Ernesto I. Badano, Gregory M. Loeb, Heather Grab, Johan Ekroos, Vesna Gagic, Saul A. Cunningham, Jens Astrom, Pablo Cavigliasso, Alejandro Trillo, Alice Classen, Alice L. Mauchline, Ana Montero-Castano, Andrew Wilby, Ben A. Woodcock, C. Sheena Sidhu, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Ioannis N. Vogiatzakis, Jose M. Herrera, Mark Otieno, Mary W. Gikungu, Sarah J. Cusser, Thomas Nauss, Lovisa Nilsson, Jessica Knapp, Jorge J. Ortega-Marcos, Jose A. Gonzalez, Juliet L. Osborne, Rosalind Blanche, Rosalind F. Shaw, Violeta Hevia, Jane Stout, Anthony D. Arthur, Betina Blochtein, Hajnalka Szentgyorgyi, Jin Li, Margaret M. Mayfield, Michal Woyciechowski, Patricia Nunes-Silva, Rosana Halinski de Oliveira, Steve Henry, Benno I. Simmons, Bo Dalsgaard, Katrine Hansen, Tuanjit Sritongchuay, Alison D. O'Reilly, Fermin Jose Chamorro Garcia, Guiomar Nates Parra, Camila Magalhaes Pigozo, Ignasi Bartomeus
Summary: This article introduces CropPol, a dynamic, open, and global database on crop pollination. The database contains records from 202 crop studies, covering 47,752 insect records from 48 commercial crops worldwide. This is the most comprehensive open global dataset on measurements of crop flower visitors, crop pollinators, and pollination to date.
Article
Forestry
Juan Aguero, Carolina Coulin, Juan P. Torretta, Lucas A. Garibaldi
Summary: The study found that disturbances can promote an increase in both native and exotic floral visitors, mainly due to the generalist interactions between plants and pollinators. Harvesting intensity had a significant positive effect on native floral visitors, and also impacted the density of exotic floral visitors, though the effects varied by site.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Adrian Gonzalez-Chaves, Luisa G. Carvalheiro, Lucas A. Garibaldi, Jean Paul Metzger
Summary: Enhancing biodiversity-based ecosystem services can lead to win-win opportunities for conservation and agricultural production. Forest cover is a crucial factor affecting coffee yields, and coffee cover is the most relevant management practice associated with coffee yield prediction.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2022)
Review
Biology
Lucas A. Garibaldi, Dulce S. Gomez Carella, Diego N. Nabaes Jodar, Matthew R. Smith, Thomas P. Timberlake, Samuel S. Myers
Summary: This article reviews the impacts of pollinator health on human health and identifies four pathways connecting them, including nutrition, medicine provisioning, mental health, and environmental quality. The authors suggest that pollinator diversity could serve as a proxy for the benefits that landscapes provide to human health.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Ecology
Jodi N. Price, Judith Sitters, Timothy Ohlert, Pedro M. Tognetti, Cynthia S. Brown, Eric W. Seabloom, Elizabeth T. Borer, Suzanne M. Prober, Elisabeth S. Bakker, Andrew S. MacDougall, Laura Yahdjian, Daniel S. Gruner, Harry Olde Venterink, Isabel C. Barrio, Pamela Graff, Sumanta Bagchi, Carlos Alberto Arnillas, Jonathan D. Bakker, Dana M. Blumenthal, Elizabeth H. Boughton, Lars A. Brudvig, Miguel N. Bugalho, Marc W. Cadotte, Maria C. Caldeira, Chris R. Dickman, Ian Donohue, Sonnier Gregory, Yann Hautier, Ingibjorg S. Jonsdottir, Luciola S. Lannes, Rebecca L. McCulley, Joslin L. Moore, Sally A. Power, Anita C. Risch, Martin Schutz, Rachel Standish, Carly J. Stevens, G. F. Veen, Risto Virtanen, Glenda M. Wardle
Summary: A NutNet experiment in 57 grasslands across six continents shows that when herbivores are excluded from grasslands with a long coevolutionary history of grazing plant diversity is reduced, while in grasslands without a long grazing history the evolutionary history of the plant species regulates the response of plant diversity.
NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2022)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Ainhoa Magrach, Angel Gimenez-Garcia, Alfonso Allen-Perkins, Lucas A. Garibaldi, Ignasi Bartomeus
Summary: Recent research suggests that agricultural landscapes can provide significant opportunities for biodiversity conservation and crop productivity. Practices such as maintaining small field sizes and high crop richness values can increase crop yields, particularly for crops that depend on pollinator activity for reproduction.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Biology
N. Perez-Mendez, C. Alcaraz, A. Bertolero, M. Catala-Forner, L. A. Garibaldi, J. P. Gonzalez-Varo, S. Rivaes, M. Martinez-Eixarch
Summary: This study evaluated the effects of changes in water management in rice farming on greenhouse gas emissions and waterbird diversity. The results showed that drying rice fields reduced methane emissions but decreased waterbird diversity, suggesting that post-invasion policies may have unintended negative consequences on biodiversity conservation.
PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2022)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Matthew R. Smith, Nathaniel D. Mueller, Marco Springmann, Timothy B. Sulser, Lucas A. Garibaldi, James Gerber, Keith Wiebe, Samuel S. Myers
Summary: Insufficient animal pollination has a significant impact on global human health and agricultural economy, especially in low-income countries. Promoting pollinator-friendly practices is crucial.
ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH PERSPECTIVES
(2022)
Review
Ecology
Fabrice Requier, Nestor Perez-Mendez, Georg K. S. Andersson, Elsa Blareau, Isabelle Merle, Lucas A. Garibaldi
Summary: Pollinators, especially non-bee pollinators, play a critical role in food security, yet their contribution to locally important crops is not well understood. We reviewed the diversity, conservation status, and role of bee and non-bee pollinators in 83 different crops of global or local importance. While bees are the most commonly recorded floral visitors, non-bee pollinators are frequently observed in locally important crops, including nocturnal insects, bats, and birds in tropical ecosystems. Neglected in current research, nocturnal pollinators are declining and urgently require integration into scientific studies and conservation efforts to promote sustainable agriculture and safeguard food security.
TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
(2023)
Editorial Material
Biodiversity Conservation
Diego Nabaes N. Jodar, Nestor Perez-Mendez, Cristina Botias, Lucas A. Garibaldi, Pablo L. Hunicken, Elena Velado-Alonso, Carlos Zaragoza-Trello
Summary: Abundant and diverse floral resources are crucial for the survival of pollinator populations and the benefits they provide to human societies. However, several agricultural practices, such as pesticide use and weed removal, have negative effects on pollinators. The proposal to remove ground vegetation after the crop's flowering period may reduce pesticide exposure, but it has limitations in terms of pollinator abundance and diversity. Additionally, it fails to address the importance of providing accessible, sufficient, safe, and seasonally-spread feeding resources for crop pollinators.
INSECT CONSERVATION AND DIVERSITY
(2023)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Maria Noel Szudruk Pascual, Veronica Chillo, Lucas A. Garibaldi, Mariano M. Amoroso
Summary: This study evaluates the effects of landscape and local variables on natural enemies' communities in small-scale agriculture, with a focus on functional response traits. The results show that landscape heterogeneity, local habitat, and management practices do not significantly affect the functional diversity of natural enemies. However, two management practices do impact the abundance of natural enemies. These findings highlight the importance of management in a heterogeneous landscape for promoting the resilience of pest control to land-use change.
Article
Forestry
S. A. Varela, J. P. Diez, F. Letourneau, E. Bianchi, M. Weigandt, A. J. Porte, S. Sergent, M. E. Nacif, L. A. Garibaldi, M. E. Fernandez
Summary: Globally, increasing forests vulnerability and drought-induced forest mortality events can rapidly alter forest functioning and ecosystem services provision. The Patagonian forests in Southern South America are important reservoirs of wildlife and highly productive. However, very little is known about the response of different woody species in these forests to climatic variation and severe drought, which is crucial for improving management strategies. This study aimed to identify the most vulnerable and most resilient species to drought and their response under different competition levels through physiological measurements. The results suggest that the effect of summer drought cannot be modulated by density management and the adaptability of the species studied may not be improved.
FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
(2023)
Article
Biodiversity Conservation
Lucas A. Garibaldi, Paula F. Zermoglio, Esteban G. Jobbagy, Lucas Andreoni, Alejo Ortiz de Urbina, Ingo Grass, Facundo J. Oddi
Summary: This article discusses guidelines for transitioning to multifunctional landscapes and proposes an iterative process for designing these landscapes. It emphasizes the importance of restoring natural habitats and creating biological corridors, as well as redesigning field size and configuration. The authors argue that multifunctional landscapes will play a critical role in achieving global biodiversity targets and moving towards net-zero emissions.
JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Entomology
Angela M. Cortes-Gomez, Adrian Gonzalez-Chaves, Nicolas Urbina-Cardona, Lucas A. Garibaldi
Summary: Pollination is crucial for food and nutritional security, and its different functional traits in insects remain poorly understood. This study investigates the relationship between insect functional traits and pollen transport in sweet granadilla crops. Bees were the most abundant insects and carried the highest amounts of pollen, with exotic honeybees being the most common species but carrying less pollen than native bees. Large-bodied native bees, such as Bombus hortulanus, carried more sweet granadilla pollen despite their low abundance. Body size was the most important trait influencing pollen transport, while traits related to body hairs had no significant effect.
NEOTROPICAL ENTOMOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Entomology
Juan Pablo Torretta, Hugo J. Marrero, Rocio Gonzalez-Vaquero, Lucas A. Garibaldi
Summary: This article presents the species diversity and threats faced by solitary bees in the Pampean region's agricultural ecosystem. The study found that low floral diversity and the use of agrochemicals could limit the population of these insects. In the current agricultural scenario, solitary bee species face a challenging situation.
JOURNAL OF APICULTURAL RESEARCH
(2023)
