TY  - JOUR
A1  - Breeze, Tom D.
A1  - Vaissiere, Bernhard E.
A1  - Bommarco, Riccardo
A1  - Petanidou, Theodora
A1  - Seraphides, Nicos
A1  - Kozak, Lajos
A1  - Scheper, Jeroen
A1  - Biesmeijer, Jacobus C.
A1  - Kleijn, David
A1  - Gyldenkærne, Steen
A1  - Moretti, Marco
A1  - Holzschuh, Andrea
A1  - Steffan-Dewenter, Ingolf
A1  - Stout, Jane C.
A1  - Pärtel, Meelis
A1  - Zobel, Martin
A1  - Potts, Simon G.
T1  - Agricultural Policies Exacerbate Honeybee Pollination Service Supply-Demand Mismatches Across Europe
JF  - PLOS ONE
N2  - Declines in insect pollinators across Europe have raised concerns about the supply of pollination services to agriculture. Simultaneously, EU agricultural and biofuel policies have encouraged substantial growth in the cultivated area of insect pollinated crops across the continent. Using data from 41 European countries, this study demonstrates that the recommended number of honeybees required to provide crop pollination across Europe has risen 4.9 times as fast as honeybee stocks between 2005 and 2010. Consequently, honeybee stocks were insufficient to supply >90% of demands in 22 countries studied. These findings raise concerns about the capacity of many countries to cope with major losses of wild pollinators and highlight numerous critical gaps in current understanding of pollination service supplies and demands, pointing to a pressing need for further research into this issue.
KW  - economy services
KW  - fruit set
KW  - sequential introduction
KW  - enhance
KW  - biodiversity
KW  - abundance
KW  - declines
KW  - crops
KW  - colonies
KW  - density
Y1  - 2014
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-117692
SN  - 1932-6203
VL  - 9
IS  - 1
ER  -