Advanced search×

Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers

Simon G SG Potts, Jacobus C JC Biesmeijer, Claire C Kremen, Peter P Neumann, Oliver O Schweiger, and William E WE Kunin

Trends Ecol Evol 25(6):9 (2010) PMID 20188434

Pollinators are a key component of global biodiversity, providing vital ecosystem services to crops and wild plants. There is clear evidence of recent declines in both wild and domesticated pollinators, and parallel declines in the plants that rely upon them. Here we describe the nature and extent of reported declines, and review the potential drivers of pollinator loss, including habitat loss and fragmentation, agrochemicals, pathogens, alien species, climate change and the interactions between them. Pollinator declines can result in loss of pollination services which have important negative ecological and economic impacts that could significantly affect the maintenance of wild plant diversity, wider ecosystem stability, crop production, food security and human welfare.

Copyright © 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2010.01.007
Version: za2963e q8zab q8zba q8zcb q8zdf q8ze4 q8zfa q8zga

Similar articles you may find interesting…

  1. Covalently linked immunomagnetic separation/adenosine triphosphate technique (Cov-IMS/ATP) enables rapid, in-field detection and quantificat...
    C M CM Lee, J F JF Griffith, ... J A JA Jay

    Audio, Transactions of the IRE Professio... 109(1):324-33 (2010) PMID 20102424

    Cov-IMS/ATP is a robust, in-field detection method for determining water quality of both fresh and marine water systems as well as differential loading of FIB from two converging channels. Significance and Impact of the Study: To our knowledge, this is the first work to present a viable rapid, in-fi...
  2. Pilot- and bench-scale testing of faecal indicator bacteria survival in marine beach sand near point sources
    KB Mika, G Imamura, ... JA Jay

    J Appl Microbiol 107(1):72-84 (2009) PMID 19302327

    Moisture was the dominant factor controlling E. coli inactivation kinetics. Initial microbial community and sand temperature were also important factors. Mechanical mixing, common in beach grooming, did not consistently reduce bacterial levels. SIGNIFICANCE AND IMPACT OF THE STUDY: Inactivation rate...
  3. Pathogen and indicator variability in a heavily impacted watershed.
    Sarah M SM Dorner, William B WB Anderson, ... Peter M PM Huck

    J Water Health 5(2):241-57 (2007) PMID 17674573

    Water samples were collected from 36 locations within the Grand River Watershed, in Southwestern Ontario, Canada from July 2002 to December 2003 and were analyzed for total coliforms, fecal coliforms, Escherichia coli, Escherichia coli O157:H7, and thermophilic Campylobacter spp. A subset of samples...