Sustainable pollination services for UK crops

英国农作物的可持续授粉服务

• 批准号: BB/I000348/1
• 负责人: Simon Potts
• 金额: $ 51.65万
• 依托单位: University of Reading
• 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%2FI000348%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，对维持野生植物群落和农业生产力至关重要。昆虫授粉（主要由蜜蜂授粉）对欧洲84%的作物和全世界75%直接作为人类食物的作物的生产都是必需的。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。作物授粉服务依赖于驯化和野生授粉者种群，两者都可能受到一系列近期和预计的环境变化的影响，其后果未知。近几十年来，人们越来越关注家养和野生传粉媒介的命运，导致《生物多样性公约》（保护和可持续利用传粉媒介国际倡议）和一些大陆、国家和区域方案提出了特别倡议。显然，昆虫授粉是一项重要的农业投入。然而，我们目前对作物的传粉需求、不同蜜蜂和其他昆虫的传粉潜力以及景观、土地利用和气候变化对传粉服务的影响知之甚少。这阻碍了在制定有效政策以保护和管理授粉服务方面取得进展。因此，我们建议：首先确定哪些野生和管理传粉媒介对依赖昆虫的作物（例如大多数果树、浆果、油菜、菜豆）的授粉有贡献，以及目前野生传粉媒介的缺乏是否限制了农业生产。第二，利用这些信息在景观尺度上预测作物授粉缺陷（使用建模方法）。第三，确定气候变化是否以及如何影响到2050年英国作物分布和对授粉服务的需求。第四，利用上述结果设计和测试减轻作物授粉不足的方法（即提高管理传粉媒介的可用性，为野生传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。它还将促进英国向更可持续的农业发展。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，以确保我们的研究产生英国农业社区所需的信息。

项目成果

Costing conservation: an expert appraisal of the pollinator habitat benefits of England's entry level stewardship.

• DOI: 10.1007/s10531-014-0660-3
• 发表时间: 2014
• 期刊: BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: Breeze, T. D.;Bailey, A. P.;Balcombe, K. G.;Potts, S. G.
• 通讯作者: Potts, S. G.

Evaluating predictive performance of statistical models explaining wild bee abundance in a mass-flowering crop

• DOI: 10.1111/ecog.05308
• 发表时间: 2021-01-19
• 期刊: ECOGRAPHY
• 影响因子: 5.9
• 作者: Blasi, Maria;Bartomeus, Ignasi;Clough, Yann
• 通讯作者: Clough, Yann

Reliably predicting pollinator abundance: Challenges of calibrating process-based ecological models

• DOI: 10.1111/2041-210x.13483
• 发表时间: 2020-09-30
• 期刊: METHODS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION
• 影响因子: 6.6
• 作者: Gardner, Emma;Breeze, Tom D.;Oliver, Tom H.
• 通讯作者: Oliver, Tom H.

Agricultural policies exacerbate honeybee pollination service supply-demand mismatches across Europe.

• DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0082996
• 发表时间: 2014
• 期刊: PloS one
• 影响因子: 3.7
• 作者: Breeze TD;Vaissière BE;Bommarco R;Petanidou T;Seraphides N;Kozák L;Scheper J;Biesmeijer JC;Kleijn D;Gyldenkærne S;Moretti M;Holzschuh A;Steffan-Dewenter I;Stout JC;Pärtel M;Zobel M;Potts SG
• 通讯作者: Potts SG

Animal pollination increases stability of crop yield across spatial scales.

• DOI: 10.1111/ele.14069
• 发表时间: 2022-09
• 期刊: Ecology letters
• 影响因子: 8.8