NCEAS Working Groups
Restoring an ecosystem service to degraded landscapes: Native bees and crop pollination
Project Description
Ecosystem services are critical to human survival; managing ecosystems for services could also provide important benefits for biodiversity. Unfortunately, we seldom understand the ecology of these services well enough to manage them. Pollination services are necessary for 15-30% of our food supply, and are comparatively well-understood relative to other ecosystem services. We propose to synthesize data on bee populations, pollinator communities and pollination services across agro-natural landscapes, in order to: (1) develop models of the persistence of populations, communities and pollination function at the landscape scale; (2) design an experiment to restore and monitor pollination function in agro-natural landscapes, replicated across sites, landscapes and regions; and (3) extend this example to create a general, conceptual framework for analyzing and managing ecosystem services. This work will improve our ability to manage agricultural lands, which occupy 38% of terrestrial area, with benefits for food security, human health and biodiversity.
Principal Investigator(s)
Claire Kremen, Neal M. Williams
Project Dates
Start: June 20, 2005
End: January 15, 2010
completed
Participants
- Laurie Adams
- Coevolution Institute
- Ramiro Aguilar
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Morelia
- Marcelo A. Aizen
- Universidad Nacional del Comahue
- James H. Cane
- Utah State University
- Daniel Cariveau
- State University of New Jersey, Rutgers
- Luisa Carvalheiro
- South African National Biodiversity Institute
- Natacha Chacoff
- Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Aridas
- Elizabeth E. Crone
- University of Montana
- Saul Cunningham
- CSIRO Entomology
- Barbara Gemmill-Herron
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Sarah S. Greenleaf
- Princeton University
- Rufus Isaacs
- Michigan State University
- Steve Javorek
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
- Timothy H. Keitt
- University of Texas, Austin
- Christina M. Kennedy
- University of Maryland
- Alexandra-Maria Klein
- University of Göttingen
- Claire Kremen
- University of California, Berkeley
- Gretchen LeBuhn
- San Francisco State University
- Eric Lonsdorf
- Lincoln Park Zoo
- Yael Mandelik
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Robert Minckley
- University of Rochester
- Lora A. Morandin
- University of California, Berkeley
- Laurence Packer
- York University
- Simon G. Potts
- University of Reading
- James Regetz
- Princeton University
- Taylor Ricketts
- World Wildlife Fund
- T'ai Roulston
- University of Virginia
- Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter
- University of Göttingen
- Julianna K. Tuell
- Michigan State University
- Diego P. Vazquez
- Instituto Argentino de Investigaciones de las Zonas Aridas
- Blandina F. Viana
- Universidade Federal da Bahia , Campus de Ondina
- Neal M. Williams
- Bryn Mawr College
- Rachael Winfree
- Princeton University
Products
-
Journal Article / 2008
Long-term global trends in crop yield and production reveal no current pollination shortage but increasing pollinator dependency
-
Journal Article / 2009
How much does agriculture depend on pollinators? Lessons from long-term trends in crop production
-
Journal Article / 2011
Contribution of pollinator-mediated crops to nutrients in the human food supply
-
Journal Article / 2011
Stability of pollination services decreases with isolation from natural areas despite honey bee visits
-
Journal Article / 2009
Habitat conversion, extinction thresholds, and pollination services in agroecosystems
-
Data Set / 2012
Local farm management and landscape effects on native bee pollinators in agroecosystems
-
Journal Article / 2007
Importance of pollinators in changing landscapes for world crops
-
Presentations / 2007
From science to action
-
Journal Article / 2007
Pollination and other ecosystem services produced by mobile organisms: A conceptual framework for the effects of land-use change
-
Journal Article / 2009
Modelling pollination services across agricultural landscapes
-
Book Chapter / 2011
Crop pollination services
-
Journal Article / 2010
Global pollinator declines: Trends, impacts and drivers
-
Data Set / 2008
Crop pollination services at varying proximity to natural habitat
-
Journal Article / 2008
Landscape effects on crop pollination services: Are there general patterns?
-
Journal Article / 2013
Mapping the margin: Comparing marginal values of tropical forest remnants for pollination services
-
Journal Article / 2010
Ecological and life history traits predict bee species responses to environmental disturbances
-
Presentations / 2008
A meta-analysis of bees response to disturbance
-
Journal Article / 2009
A meta-analysis of bees' responses to anthropogenic disturbance