Crop pollination from native bees at risk from agricultural intensificationClaire Kremen
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Guyot Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 99:16812-6. 2002
..Continued degradation of the agro-natural landscape will destroy this "free" service, but conservation and restoration of bee habitat are potentially viable economic alternatives for reducing dependence on managed honey bees...
Native bees provide insurance against ongoing honey bee lossesRachael Winfree
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Ecol Lett 10:1105-13. 2007
..The honey bee is currently undergoing extensive die-offs because of Colony Collapse Disorder. We predict that in our region native bees will buffer potential declines in agricultural production because of honey bee losses...
- Effect of human disturbance on bee communities in a forested ecosystem
Rachael Winfree
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Conserv Biol 21:213-23. 2007
..One of these species is a narrow endemic that was last seen in 1939. Our results suggest that at least in this system, moderate anthropogenic land use may be compatible with the conservation of many, but not all, bee species...
- Resource distributions among habitats determine solitary bee offspring production in a mosaic landscape
Neal M Williams
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
Ecol Appl 17:910-21. 2007
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- Wild bees enhance honey bees' pollination of hybrid sunflower
Sarah S Greenleaf
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 103:13890-5. 2006
..These findings also demonstrate the economic importance of interspecific interactions for ecosystem services and suggest that protecting wild bee populations can help buffer the human food supply from honey bee shortages...
- Testing simple indices of habitat proximity
Rachael Winfree
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA
Am Nat 165:707-17. 2005
..However, none of the indices performed well in predicting population response variables. The results suggest that the pattern of habitat cover alone may be insufficient to predict the process of animal movement...
Landscape effects on crop pollination services: are there general patterns?Taylor H Ricketts
Conservation Science Program, WWF, Washington D C, USA
Ecol Lett 11:499-515. 2008
..Quantifying these general relationships can help predict consequences of land use change on pollinator communities and crop productivity, and can inform landscape conservation efforts that balance the needs of native species and people...
- Pollination and other ecosystem services produced by mobile organisms: a conceptual framework for the effects of land-use change
Claire Kremen
Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, University of California, 137 Mulford Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720 3114, USA
Ecol Lett 10:299-314. 2007
..Developing conceptual models for MABES aids in identifying knowledge gaps, determining research priorities, and targeting interventions that can be applied in an adaptive management context...
- Bee foraging ranges and their relationship to body size
Sarah S Greenleaf
Department of Plant Pathology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Oecologia 153:589-96. 2007
..The equations we present can be used to predict foraging distances for many bee species, based on a simple measurement of body size...
- Importance of pollinators in changing landscapes for world crops
Alexandra Maria Klein
Agroecology, University of Gottingen, Waldweg 26, 37073 Gottingen, Germany
Proc Biol Sci 274:303-13. 2007
..Case studies for nine crops on four continents revealed that agricultural intensification jeopardizes wild bee communities and their stabilizing effect on pollination services at the landscape scale...
- Ecology: The Convention on Biological Diversity's 2010 target
Andrew Balmford
Cambridge University and University of Cape Town
Science 307:212-3. 2005
- Inadequate assessment of the ecosystem service rationale for conservation: reply to Ghazoul
Claire Kremen
University of California, 137 Mulford Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-3114, USA
Conserv Biol 22:795-8; discusion 799-801. 2008
