Important Crop Pollinators Respond Less Negatively to Anthropogenic Land Use Than Other Animals.

ABSTRACT: Animal-mediated pollination is a key ecosystem service required to some extent by almost three-quarters of the leading human food crops in global food production. Anthropogenic pressures such as habitat loss and land-use intensification are causing shifts in ecological community composition, potentially resulting in declines in pollination services and impacting crop production. Previous research has often overlooked interspecific differences in pollination contribution, yet such differences mean that biodiversity declines will not necessarily negatively impact pollination. Here, we use a novel species-level ecosystem service contribution matrix along with mixed-effects models to explore how groups of terrestrial species who contribute differently to crop pollination respond globally to la

SUBMITTER: Williams JJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11522614 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature