Safeguarding pollinators and their values to human well-being

SG Potts, V Imperatriz-Fonseca, HT Ngo, MA Aizen… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Wild and managed pollinators provide a wide range of benefits to society in terms of
contributions to food security, farmer and beekeeper livelihoods, social and cultural values …

The dependence of crops for pollinators and the economic value of pollination in Brazil

TC Giannini, GD Cordeiro, BM Freitas… - Journal of economic …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Food production is challenged by changes in climate and land use and expanding human
population growth. Proper pollination can increase the production and quality of fruit, nut, oil …

Incorporating climate change into ecosystem service assessments and decisions: a review

RK Runting, BA Bryan, LE Dee… - Global change …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is having a significant impact on ecosystem services and is likely to become
increasingly important as this phenomenon intensifies. Future impacts can be difficult to …

[HTML][HTML] Pollinator conservation—the difference between managing for pollination services and preserving pollinator diversity

D Senapathi, JC Biesmeijer, TD Breeze, D Kleijn… - Current opinion in insect …, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Only a few species of pollinators have a direct and easily recognised economic
importance and managing species for pollination services does not equal conserving wider …

Crop pollinators in Brazil: a review of reported interactions

TC Giannini, S Boff, GD Cordeiro, EA Cartolano… - Apidologie, 2015 - Springer
Pollinators are important to maintain ecosystem services, being part of the reproduction and
seed formation process of plant species. In this study, we reviewed the literature and …

Climate change impacts on pollination

J Settele, J Bishop, SG Potts - Nature Plants, 2016 - nature.com
Biotic pollination improves the yield of 75% of crop types globally, and therefore has great
nutritional importance for humans1. However, the future of animal pollination is severely …

Influence of climate change on metabolism and biological characteristics in perennial woody fruit crops in the Mediterranean environment

S Medda, A Fadda, M Mulas - Horticulturae, 2022 - mdpi.com
The changes in the state of the climate have a high impact on perennial fruit crops thus
threatening food availability. Indeed, climatic factors affect several plant aspects, such as …

Climate change in the Eastern Amazon: crop-pollinator and occurrence-restricted bees are potentially more affected

TC Giannini, WF Costa, RC Borges, L Miranda… - Regional Environmental …, 2020 - Springer
There is pressing need to anticipate the impacts of climate change on species and their
functional contributions to ecosystem processes. Our objective is to evaluate the potential …

The climatic challenge: Which plants will people use in the next century?

JS Borrell, S Dodsworth, F Forest… - Environmental and …, 2020 - Elsevier
More than 31,000 useful plant species have been documented to fulfil needs and services
for humans or the animals and environment we depend on. Despite this diversity, humans …

speciesLink: rich data and novel tools for digital assessments of biodiversity

DAL Canhos, EAB Almeida, AL Assad… - Biota …, 2022 - SciELO Brasil
Abstract species Link is a large-scale biodiversity information portal that exists thanks to a
broad collaborative network of people and institutions. CRIA's involvement with the scientific …