Projected climate change threatens pollinators and crop production in Brazil.

ABSTRACT: Animal pollination can impact food security since many crops depend on pollinators to produce fruits and seeds. However, the effects of projected climate change on crop pollinators and therefore on crop production are still unclear, especially for wild pollinators and aggregate community responses. Using species distributional modeling, we assessed the effects of climate change on the geographic distribution of 95 pollinator species of 13 Brazilian crops, and we estimated their relative impacts on crop production. We described these effects at the municipality level, and we assessed the crops that were grown, the gross production volume of these crops, the total crop production value, and the number of inhabitants. Overall, considering all crop species, we found that the projected climate

SUBMITTER: Giannini TC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5549956 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature