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，对野生植物社区和农业生产力的维护至关重要。昆虫的授粉主要是蜜蜂，对于欧洲所有农作物中84％的生产是必要的，而75％的农作物直接用作全球人类食品。 2005年，全球绝缘授粉的经济价值约为1,200亿英镑，在英国约为4.4亿英镑。作物授粉服务依赖于驯化和野生传粉媒介的种群，并且两者都可能受到一系列最近和预计的环境变化的影响，并带来未知的后果。近几十年来，人们对驯化和野生传粉媒介的命运越来越关注，这导致了《生物多样性公约》（国际授粉媒介国际倡议）和许多大陆，国家和地区计划的特殊倡议。显然，昆虫授粉是重要的农业投入。但是，我们目前对农作物的授粉需求，不同蜜蜂的授粉潜力以及其他绝缘层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很差。这使得在设计有效的政策以保护和管理授粉服务方面取得了进步。因此，我们建议：首先确定哪种野生和管理的授粉媒介有助于依赖隔热的农作物（例如，大多数果树，浆果，油菜，强奸，豆豆）以及目前是否缺乏野生授粉媒介限制农业生产。其次，要使用此信息来预测作物授粉在景观量表上定义（使用建模方法）。第三，确定攀岩变化是否会影响英国的作物分布以及对2050年的授粉服务的需求。第四，使用上述结果来设计和测试方法来减轻作物授粉不足（即提高托管传粉媒介的可用性，为野生授粉者提供食物或巢穴的资源）。该项目的结果将提供重要的新型科学见解，这些见解可用于支持英国农民关于农作物，景观和传粉媒介管理实践的决策。这也将促进英国朝着更可持续的农业发展。为此，我们将把结果传播给主要利益相关者（农民，养蜂人，土地管理者，保护机构），但更全面地我们将启动利益相关者和科学家之间的信息交换，以确保我们的研究能够产生UK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.

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.

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

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

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