Anticipating future land use and land cover (LULC) changes can improve our knowledge of the complexity of human-environment interactions that lead to transformations in the …
Industrial agriculture (IA) has been recognized among the main drivers of biodiversity loss, climate change, and native pollinator decline. Here we summarize the known negative …
M Eeraerts, R Vanderhaegen… - Agricultural and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Crop pollination generally increases with pollinator diversity and wild pollinator visitation. To optimize crop pollination, it is necessary to investigate the pollination contribution of different …
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 …
M Eeraerts, G Smagghe, I Meeus - Agriculture, Ecosystems & Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Declines of pollinator diversity are causing concern about pollination service security for agriculture and natural ecosystems. Landscape composition has been found to regulate the …
Context To safeguard insect pollinators and their pollination services, we need to understand how landscape structure regulates the distribution of resources that sustain …
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 …
J Osterman, F Benton, S Hellström… - Ecology and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Mason bees (Osmia spp.) are efficient fruit tree pollinators that can be encouraged to occupy and breed in artificial nesting material. In sweet cherry orchards, they are occasionally used …
O Bartholomée, A Aullo, J Becquet, C Vannier… - Agriculture, Ecosystems …, 2020 - Elsevier
Pollination is a critical ecosystem service given its essential role in sustaining food production, while pollinating insects are declining worldwide. Pollination capacity can be …