Landscapes with wild bee habitats enhance pollination, fruit set and yield of sweet cherry

Biological Conservation

Volumn 153, Issue , 2012, Pages 101-107

  Holzschuh, Andrea ^a,b   Dudenhöffer, Jan Hendrik ^b   Tscharntke, Teja ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bees; Cherry; Fruit set; Landscape; Pollination; Semi natural habitats

Indexed keywords

BEE; CROP YIELD; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FLOWER VISITING; FOOD PRODUCTION; FRUIT SET; HABITAT CONSERVATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; POLLEN LIMITATION; POLLINATION; SUSTAINABILITY; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; PRUNUS AVIUM;

EID: 84862748217     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2012.04.032     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. Aebi A., Vaissière B.E., vanEngelsdorp D., Delaplane K.S., Roubik D.W., Neumann P. Back to the future: Apis vs. non-Apis pollination. Trends Ecol. Evol. 2012, 72:142-143.
2. Allen-Wardell G., Bernhardt P., Bitner R., Burquez A., Buchmann S., Cane J., Cox P., Dalton V., Feinsinger P., Ingram M., Inouye D., Jones C., Kennedy K., Kevan P., Koopowitz H., Medellin R., Medellin-Morales S., Nabhan G., Pavlik B., Tepedino V., Torchio P., Walker S. The potential consequences of pollinator declines on the conservation ofbiodiversity and stability of food crop yields. Conserv. Biol. 1998, 12:8-17.
3. Arthur A.D., Li J., Henry S., Cunningham S.A. Influence of woody vegetation on pollinator densities in oilseedBrassica fields in an Australian temperate landscape. Basic Appl. Ecol. 2010, 11:406-414.
4. Bosch J., Blas M. Foraging behavior and pollination efficiency of Osmia cornuta and Apis mellifera on almond (Hymeoptera, Megachiliedae and Apidae). Appl. Entomol. Zool. 1994, 29:1-9.
5. Bosch J., Kemp W., Trostle G. Bee population returns and cherry yields in an orchard pollinated withOsmia lignaria (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae). J. Econ. Entomol. 2006, 99:408-413.
6. Breeze T.D., Bailey A.P., Balcombe K.G., Potts S.G. Pollination services in the UK: how important are honeybees?. Agric. Ecosyst. Environ. 2011, 142:137-143.
7. Burd M. Bateman's principle and plant reproduction: the role of pollen limitation in fruit and seed set. Bot. Rev. 1994, 60:83-139.
8. Carvalheiro L.G., Seymour C.L., Veldtman R., Nicolson S.W. Pollination services decline with distance from natural habitat even in biodiversity-rich areas. J. Appl. Ecol. 2010, 47:810-820.
9. Carvalheiro L.G., Veldtman R., Shenkute A.G., Tesfay G.B., Pirk C.W.W., Donaldson J.S., Nicolson S.W. Natural and within-farmland biodiversity enhances crop productivity. Ecol. Lett. 2011, 14:251-259.
10. FAOSTAT, 2010. (accessed March 2012). http://www.faostat.fao.org.
11. Free J.B. Insect Pollination of Crops 1993, Academic Press London, UK.
12. Free J.B., Spencer-Booth Y. The foraging behaviour of honey-bees in an orchard of dwarf apple trees. J. Hortic. Sci. Biotechnol. 1966, 39:78-83.
13. Gallai N., Salles J.-M., Settele J., Vaissiere B.E. Economic valuation of the vulnerability of world agriculture confrontedwith pollinator decline. Ecol. Econ. 2009, 68:810-821.
14. Garibaldi L.A., Steffan-Dewenter I., Kremen C., Morales J.M., Bommarco R., Cunningham S.A., Carvalheiro L.G., Chacoff N.P., Dudenhoeffer J.H., Greenleaf S.S., Holzschuh A., Isaacs R., Krewenka K., Mandelik Y., Mayfield M.M., Morandin L.A., Potts S.G., Ricketts T.H., Szentgyoergyi H., Viana B.F., Westphal C., Winfree R., Klein A.M. Stability of pollination services decreases with isolation from natural areas despite honey bee visits. Ecol. Lett. 2011, 14:1062-1072.
15. Gathmann A., Tscharntke T. Foraging ranges of solitary bees. J. Anim. Ecol. 2002, 71:757-764.
16. Ghazoul J. Buzziness as usual? Questioning the global pollination crisis. Trends Ecol. Evol. 2005, 20:367-373.
17. Greenleaf S.S., Kremen C. Wild bees enhance honey bees' pollination of hybrid sunflower. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. USA 2006, 103:13890-13895.
18. Hothorn T., Bretz F., Westfall P. Simultaneous inference in general parametric models. Biometr. J. 2008, 50:346-363.
19. Ivey C., Martinez P., Wyatt R. Variation in pollinator effectiveness in swamp milkweed, Asclepiasincarnata (Apocynaceae). Am. J. Bot. 2003, 90:214-225.
20. Javorek S., Mackenzie K., Vander Kloet S. Comparative pollination effectiveness among bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) on lowbush blueberry (Ericaceae: Vaccinium angustifolium). Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 2002, 95:345-351.
21. Klein A.-M., Vaissiere B.E., Cane J.H., Steffan-Dewenter I., Cunningham S.A., Kremen C., Tscharntke T. Importance of pollinators in changing landscapes for world crops. Proc. Roy. Soc. B - Biol. Sci. 2007, 274:303-313.
22. Krewenka K., Holzschuh A., Tscharntke T., Dormann C.F. Landscape elements as potential barriers and corridors for bees, wasps and parasitoids. Biol. Conserv. 2011, 144:1816-1825.
23. Larson B.M.H., Barrett S.C.H. A comparative analysis of pollen limitation in flowering plants. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 2000, 69:503-520.
24. Lech W., Małodobry M., Dziedzic E., Bieniaszand M., Doniec S. Biology of sweet cherry flowering. J. Fruit Ornam. Plant Res. 2008, 16:189-199.
25. Ollerton J., Price V., Armbruster W.S., Memmott J., Watts S., Waser N.M., Totland O., Goulson D., Alarcón R., Stout J.C., Tarrant S. Overplaying the role of honey bees as pollinators: a comment on Aebi and Neumann (2011). Trends Ecol. Evol. 2012, 27:141-142.
26. Potts S.G., Biesmeijer J.C., Kremen C., Neumann P., Schweiger O., Kunin W.E. Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers. Trends Ecol. Evol. 2010, 25:345-353.
27. R Development Core Team, 2011 R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. http://www.R-project.org.
28. Ricketts T.H., Regetz J., Steffan-Dewenter I., Cunningham S.A., Kremen C., Bogdanski A., Gemmill-Herren B., Greenleaf S.S., Klein A.M., Mayfield M.M., Morandin L.A., Ochieng A., Viana B.F. Landscape effects on crop pollination services: are there generalpatterns?. Ecol. Lett. 2008, 11:499-515.
29. Roulston T.H., Goodell K. The role of resources and risks in regulating wild bee populations. Annu. Rev. Entomol. 2011, 56:293-312.
30. Somerville, D., 1999. Honey bees in cherry and plum pollination, NSW Agriculture Agnote DAI 126.
31. Steffan-Dewenter I., Münzenberg U., Bürger C., Thies C., Tscharntke T. Scale-dependent effects of landscape context on three pollinator guilds. Ecology 2002, 83:1421-1432.
32. Vicens N., Bosch J. Pollinating efficacy of Osmia cornuta and Apis mellifera (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae, Apidae) on 'Red Delicious' apple. Environ. Entomol. 2000, 29:235-240.
33. Westrich P. Die Wildbienen Baden-Württembergs, vol. 1 1990, Ulmer Stuttgart, Germany. second ed.
34. Williams N.M., Thomson J.D. Comparing pollinator quality of honey bees (Hymemoptera: Apidae) and native bees using pollen removal and deposition measures. For nonnative crops, whence pollinators of the future? 2003, 163-179. Entomological Society of America Lanham, Maryland, USA. K. Stickler, J.H. Cane (Eds.).
35. Wilson P., Thomson J. Heterogeneity among floral visitors leads to discordance between removal and deposition of pollen. Ecology 1991, 72:1503-1507.
36. Winfree R., Williams N.M., Dushoff J., Kremen C. Native bees provide insurance against ongoing honey bee losses. Ecol. Lett. 2007, 10:1105-1113.
37. Winfree R., Williams N.M., Gaines H., Ascher J.S., Kremen C. Wild bee pollinators provide the majority of crop visitation across land-use gradients in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, USA. J. Appl. Ecol. 2008, 45:793-802.
38. Young H.J., Young T.P. Alternative outcomes of natural and experimental high pollen loads. Ecology 1992, 73:639-647.
39. Zhang W., Ricketts T.H., Kremen C., Carney K., Swinton S.M. Ecosystem services and dis-services to agriculture. Ecol. Econ. 2007, 64:253-260.
40. Zuur F.A., Ieno E.N., Walker N., Saveliev A.A. Mixed Effects Models and Extensions in Ecology with R (Statistics for Biology and Health) 2009, Springer, New York. first ed.