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T1 Pollination service delivery for European crops: Challenges and opportunities
A1 Nogué, Sandra
A1 Long, Peter R.
A1 Eycott, Amy E.
A1 Nascimento Reyes, Lea de
A1 Fernández-Palacios, José María
A1 Petrokofsky, Gillian
A1 Vandvik, Vigdis
A1 Willis, Kathy J.
K1 Ecosystem services
K1 Pollination
K1 Landscape management
K1 Pollinator-dependent crops
K1 Species distribution modeling
K1 servicios del ecosistema
K1 polinización
K1 gestión del paisaje
K1 cultivos dependientes de los polinizadores
K1 modelo de distribución de especies
AB Crop pollination by bees has long been recognized as an ecosystem service of huge economic value; a large numberof food crops depend upon pollination. Features across landscapes that are important for pollination deliveryinclude: nesting habitats, floral resource availability at foraging distance, and climate. The conditions forpresence/absence of pollinators are therefore complex and rely upon a combination of biotic and abiotic factors.To date there has been no easily available method for landowners to determine the potential of pollinationdelivery across the land effectively and rapidly. In this paper we develop a method that uses freely availabledatasets to remotely estimate the relative provision of pollination service delivery provided by bees acrossEurope at a 300 m-pixel resolution. We then identify the potential pollination delivery and efficiency acrossEurope at country and regional level. This study illustrates an approach that obtains a first approximation forland managers to identify potential areas across landscapes to protect in order to enhance pollination servicedelivery.
PB Elsevier BV
YR 2016
FD 2016
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/18488
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/18488
LA en
NO Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 25-nov-2024