Scarcity of ecosystem services: an experimental manipulation of declining pollination rates and its economic consequences for agriculture

Ecosystem services (ES) such as pollination are vital for the continuous supply of food to a growing human population, but the decline in populations of insect pollinators worldwide poses a threat to food and nutritional security. Using a pollinator (honeybee) exclusion approach, we evaluated the im...

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Main Authors: Harpinder Sandhu, Benjamin Waterhouse, Stephane Boyer, Steve Wratten
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: PeerJ Inc. 2016-07-01
Series:PeerJ
Subjects:
ES
Online Access:https://peerj.com/articles/2099.pdf