Effects of a Possible Pollinator Crisis on Food Crop Production in Brazil.

ABSTRACT: Animal pollinators contribute to human food production and security thereby ensuring an important component of human well-being. The recent decline of these agents in Europe and North America has aroused the concern of a potential global pollinator crisis. In order to prioritize efforts for pollinator conservation, we evaluated the extent to which food production depends on animal pollinators in Brazil-one of the world's agriculture leaders-by comparing cultivated area, produced volume and yield value of major food crops that are pollinator dependent with those that are pollinator non-dependent. In addition, we valued the ecosystem service of pollination based on the degree of pollinator dependence of each crop and the consequence of a decline in food production to the Brazilian Gross Dome

SUBMITTER: Novais SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5130262 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature