? A team of researchers, NGOs, industry and policy experts from 25 institutions spread across 15 countries are joining forces to contribute to Europe’s capacity to reverse the losses of wild pollinators. The newly project Safeguard is funded by EU Horizon 2020 program. ? Safeguard aims to address the decline of wild pollinators, its effects on biodiversity and ecosystem services and options to restore pollinator biodiversity

Recommendations to ensure the CAP post-2020 supports insect pollinators ...

Human land use threatens global biodiversity and compromises multiple ecosystem functions critical to food production. Whether crop yield–related ecosystem services can be maintained by a few dominant species or rely on high richness remains unclear. Using a global database from 89 studies (with 1475 locations), the relative importance of species richness, abundance, and dominance (relative species abundance) for pollination; biological pest control, and final yields in the context of...

The honeybee Apis mellifera is the primary managed species worldwide for both crop pollination and honey production. Owing to beekeeping activity, its high relative abundance potentially affects the structure and functioning of pollination networks in natural ecosystems. Given that evidences about beekeeping impacts are restricted to observational studies of specific species and theoretical simulations, experimental data are still lacking to test for their larger-scale impacts on...

Wild and managed bees are well documented as effective pollinators of global crops of economic importance. However, the contributions by pollinators other than bees have been little explored. This study focus on non-bee insects and synthesize 39 field studies from five continents that directly measured the crop pollination services provided by non-bees, honey bees, and other bees to compare the relative contributions of these taxa.