Sustainable pollination services for UK crops

英国农作物的可持续授粉服务

• 批准号: BB/I000429/1
• 负责人: Giles Budge
• 金额: $ 12.08万
• 依托单位: Fera Science (United Kingdom)
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2011 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=BB%2FI000429%2F1
• 关键词: Sustainable; pollination; services; UK; crops

Pollination is a key ecosystem service, vital to the maintenance both of wild plant communities and agricultural productivity. Insect pollination, mostly by bees, is necessary for production in 84% of all crops in the Europe and 75% of the crops that are used directly as human food worldwide. In 2005, the economic value of insect pollination per year amounted to approximately £120 billion globally and about £440 million in the UK. Crop pollination services depend on both domesticated and wild pollinator populations, and both may be affected by a range of recent and projected environmental changes, with unknown consequences. There has been growing concern in recent decades about the fate of both domesticated and wild pollinators, leading to special initiatives by the Convention for Biodiversity (International Initiative for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Pollinators) and a number of continental, national and regional programmes. Clearly, insect pollination is an important agricultural input. However, our current knowledge about the pollination requirements of crops, the pollination potential of different bees and other insects and the impact of landscape, land use and climate changes on pollination services is poor. This is holding up progress towards designing effective policies to conserve and manage pollination services. Therefore, we propose to: First determine which wild and managed pollinators contribute to pollination of insect-dependent crops (e.g. most fruit trees, berries, oilseed rape, field beans) and whether at present lack of wild pollinators limits agricultural production. Second, to use this information to predict crop pollination deficits at the landscape scale (using modelling approaches). Third, determine whether and how climate change will affect UK crop distributions and the need for pollination services towards 2050. Fourth, use the outcomes of the above to design and test ways to mitigate against crop pollination deficits (i.e. improve availability of managed pollinators, provide food or nest resources for wild pollinators). The outcomes of the project will provide important novel scientific insights that can be used to support UK farmer decisions on crop, landscape and pollinator management practices. It will also facilitate the UK's move towards more sustainable agriculture. To this end we will disseminate our results to the major stakeholders (farmers, beekeepers, land managers, conservation agencies), but even more crucially we will start the exchange of information between stakeholders and scientists to guarantee that our research produces information required by the UK agricultural community.

授粉是一项关键的生态系统服务，对于维持野生植物群落和农业生产力至关重要。欧洲 84% 的农作物和全世界 75% 的直接用作人类食物的农作物的生产都需要昆虫授粉，主要是通过蜜蜂。 2005年，全球每年昆虫授粉的经济价值约为1200亿英镑，英国约为4.4亿英镑。农作物授粉服务依赖于驯化和野生授粉媒介种群，两者都可能受到一系列近期和预计的环境变化的影响，后果未知。近几十年来，人们越来越关注驯化和野生传粉媒介的命运，导致生物多样性公约（国际传粉媒介保护和可持续利用倡议）和一些大陆、国家和区域计划提出了特别倡议。显然，昆虫授粉是重要的农业投入。然而，我们目前对农作物的授粉要求、不同蜜蜂和其他昆虫的授粉潜力以及景观、土地利用和气候变化对授粉服务的影响了解甚少。这阻碍了设计保护和管理授粉服务的有效政策的进展。因此，我们建议：首先确定哪些野生和管理传粉媒介有助于昆虫依赖作物（例如大多数果树、浆果、油菜、蚕豆）的授粉，以及目前野生传粉媒介的缺乏是否限制了农业生产。其次，利用这些信息来预测景观尺度上的作物授粉缺陷（使用建模方法）。第三，确定气候变化是否以及如何影响英国作物分布以及到 2050 年对授粉服务的需求。第四，利用上述结果设计和测试缓解作物授粉缺陷的方法（即提高受管理授粉媒介的可用性，为野生授粉媒介提供食物或巢穴资源）。该项目的成果将提供重要的新颖科学见解，可用于支持英国农民在作物、景观和传粉媒介管理实践方面的决策。它还将促进英国迈向更可持续的农业。为此，我们将向主要利益相关者（农民、养蜂人、土地管理者、保护机构）传播我们的结果，但更重要的是，我们将开始利益相关者和科学家之间的信息交流，以保证我们的研究产生英国农业界所需的信息。

项目成果

Species distribution models for crop pollination: a modelling framework applied to Great Britain.

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076308
• 发表时间: 2013
• 期刊: PloS one
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: Polce C;Termansen M;Aguirre-Gutiérrez J;Boatman ND;Budge GE;Crowe A;Garratt MP;Pietravalle S;Potts SG;Ramirez JA;Somerwill KE;Biesmeijer JC
• 通讯作者: Biesmeijer JC

Climate-driven spatial mismatches between British orchards and their pollinators: increased risks of pollination deficits.

• DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12577
• 发表时间: 2014-09
• 期刊: Global change biology
• 影响因子: 11.6
• 作者: Polce C;Garratt MP;Termansen M;Ramirez-Villegas J;Challinor AJ;Lappage MG;Boatman ND;Crowe A;Endalew AM;Potts SG;Somerwill KE;Biesmeijer JC
• 通讯作者: Biesmeijer JC

Evidence for pollinator cost and farming benefits of neonicotinoid seed coatings on oilseed rape.

• DOI: 10.1038/srep12574
• 发表时间: 2015-08-13
• 期刊: Scientific reports
• 影响因子: 4.6
• 作者: Budge GE;Garthwaite D;Crowe A;Boatman ND;Delaplane KS;Brown MA;Thygesen HH;Pietravalle S
• 通讯作者: Pietravalle S