Intraspecific crop diversity for enhanced crop pollination success. A review

S Chabert, M Eeraerts, LW DeVetter, M Borghi… - Agronomy for …, 2024 - Springer
Interspecific crop diversity (eg, intercropping) has been documented to promote
sustainability in agroecological systems with benefits for pollination services and insect …

Toward evidence-based decision support systems to optimize pollination and yields in highbush blueberry

LW DeVetter, S Chabert, MO Milbrath… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Highbush blueberry (Vaccinium spp.) is a globally important fruit crop that depends on insect-
mediated pollination to produce quality fruit and commercially viable yields. Pollination …

Different types of semi‐natural habitat are required to sustain diverse wild bee communities across agricultural landscapes

C Maurer, L Sutter, C Martínez‐Núñez… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Semi‐natural habitats provide important resources for wild bees in agricultural landscapes.
Landscapes under management are dynamic and floral resources fluctuate in space and …

A minimum of 15% semi-natural habitat facilitates adequate wild pollinator visitation to a pollinator-dependent crop

M Eeraerts - Biological Conservation, 2023 - Elsevier
The continued expansion of pollinator-dependent crops increases our reliance on insect
pollinators, with wild pollinators providing a considerable proportion of pollination services …

Early spring orchard pollinators spill over from resource‐rich adjacent forest patches

KR Urban‐Mead, M Van Dyke, P Muñiz… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Pollinator communities are more abundant and diverse in agricultural matrices with more
natural habitat, although the reasons for these correlations remain unclear. It is possible that …

Foraging distances, habitat preferences and seasonal colony performance of honeybees in Central European forest landscapes

B Rutschmann, PL Kohl… - Journal of Applied …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Unmanaged forest is considered as native habitat of the Western honeybee Apis mellifera
and is assumed to provide important pollen and nectar sources. However, resource supply …

Wild plants in hedgerows and weeds in crop fields are important floral resources for wild flower-visiting insects, independently of the presence of intercrops

S Aviron, T Berry, D Leroy, G Savary… - Agriculture, Ecosystems & …, 2023 - Elsevier
The availability of diverse floral resources is crucial for the maintenance of pollinating
insects and the pollination service they provide in agricultural landscapes. Ensuring plant …

Temporal and spatial heterogeneity of semi‐natural habitat, but not crop diversity, is correlated with landscape pollinator richness

C Martínez‐Núñez, D Kleijn, C Ganuza… - Journal of Applied …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Enhancing the diversity of mass‐flowering crops (ie crop diversity) in agricultural landscapes
is often proposed as a measure to favour pollinators and pollination, but it is uncertain …

Landscape-level honey bee hive density, instead of field-level hive density, enhances honey bee visitation in blueberry

M Eeraerts, E Rogers, B Gillespie, L Best, OM Smith… - Landscape …, 2023 - Springer
Context To date, managing honey bees and wild bees within crop fields remains
challenging. Landscape structure is often overlooked when studying the pollination …

[HTML][HTML] The need for weeds: Man-made, non-cropped habitats complement crops and natural habitats in providing honey bees and bumble bees with pollen …

J Jachuła, B Denisow, M Wrzesień… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
In Europe, honey bees and bumble bees are among the most important pollinators, and
there is a growing interest in understanding the effects of floral resource availability on their …