Meta-analysis reveals that pollinator functional diversity and abundance enhance crop pollination and yield
dc.contributor.author | Woodcock, BA | |
dc.contributor.author | Garratt, MPD | |
dc.contributor.author | Powney, GD | |
dc.contributor.author | Shaw, RF | |
dc.contributor.author | Osborne, JL | |
dc.contributor.author | Soroka, J | |
dc.contributor.author | Lindström, SAM | |
dc.contributor.author | Stanley, D | |
dc.contributor.author | Ouvrard, P | |
dc.contributor.author | Edwards, ME | |
dc.contributor.author | Jauker, F | |
dc.contributor.author | McCracken, ME | |
dc.contributor.author | Zou, Y | |
dc.contributor.author | Potts, SG | |
dc.contributor.author | Rundlöf, M | |
dc.contributor.author | Noriega, JA | |
dc.contributor.author | Greenop, A | |
dc.contributor.author | Smith, HG | |
dc.contributor.author | Bommarco, R | |
dc.contributor.author | van der Werf, W | |
dc.contributor.author | Stout, JC | |
dc.contributor.author | Steffan-Dewenter, I | |
dc.contributor.author | Morandin, L | |
dc.contributor.author | Bullock, JM | |
dc.contributor.author | Pywell, RF | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-07-02T09:16:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-04-01 | |
dc.description.abstract | How insects promote crop pollination remains poorly understood in terms of the contribution of functional trait differences between species. We used meta-analyses to test for correlations between community abundance, species richness and functional trait metrics with oilseed rape yield, a globally important crop. While overall abundance is consistently important in predicting yield, functional divergence between species traits also showed a positive correlation. This result supports the complementarity hypothesis that pollination function is maintained by non-overlapping trait distributions. In artificially constructed communities (mesocosms), species richness is positively correlated with yield, although this effect is not seen under field conditions. As traits of the dominant species do not predict yield above that attributed to the effect of abundance alone, we find no evidence in support of the mass ratio hypothesis. Management practices increasing not just pollinator abundance, but also functional divergence, could benefit oilseed rape agriculture. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 10, article 1481 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1038/s41467-019-09393-6 | |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/N018125/1 ASSIST | en_GB |
dc.identifier.grantnumber | NE/J014680/1 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/37791 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Nature Research | en_GB |
dc.rights | © Crown 2019. Open Access. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. | en_GB |
dc.title | Meta-analysis reveals that pollinator functional diversity and abundance enhance crop pollination and yield | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2019-07-02T09:16:40Z | |
dc.description | This is the final version. Available on open access from Nature Research via the DOI in this record | en_GB |
dc.description | Data availability: Species abundance data from the 17 sites (including unpublished data sets) is given in Supplementary Data 4. The Source Data file contains all the data used in this paper including raw and corrected abundance data and derived plot level community metrics used to determine Pearson’s correlations on which the meta-analyses were based. This includes data from previously unpublished studies. This file also contains all values presented in the figures. Supplementary Data 2 & 3 contains all trait data used in the derivation of functional divergence and CWM values. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.eissn | 2041-1723 | |
dc.identifier.journal | Nature Communications | en_GB |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en_GB |
dcterms.dateAccepted | 2019-03-08 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en_GB |
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate | 2019-04-01 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | en_GB |
refterms.dateFCD | 2019-07-02T09:13:56Z | |
refterms.versionFCD | VoR | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2019-07-02T09:16:44Z | |
refterms.panel | A | en_GB |
refterms.depositException | publishedGoldOA |
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