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How much does agriculture depend on pollinators? Lessons from long-term trends in crop production

2009; Oxford University Press; Volume: 103; Issue: 9 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1093/aob/mcp076

1095-8290

Marcelo A. Aizen, Lucas A. Garibaldi, Saul A. Cunningham, Alexandra‐Maria Klein,

Insect and Pesticide Research

Background and AimsProductivity of many crops benefits from the presence of pollinating insects, so a decline in pollinator abundance should compromise global agricultural production. Motivated by the lack of accurate estimates of the size of this threat, we quantified the effect of total loss of pollinators on global agricultural production and crop production diversity. The change in pollinator dependency over 46 years was also evaluated, considering the developed and developing world separately.