Journal of Pollination Ecology, 7(5), 2012, pp 31-41
Cholula Issue
HOW WELL DO WE UNDERSTAND LANDSCAPE EFFECTS ON
POLLINATORS AND POLLINATION SERVICES?
Blandina F. Viana1*, Danilo Boscolo2, Eduardo Mariano Neto1, Luciano E. Lopes3, Ariadna V. Lopes4,
Patrícia A. Ferreira1, Camila M. Pigozzo5 and Luis M. Primo1
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Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Bahia, 40170-210, Brazil
Universidade Federal de São Paulo – UNIFESP, Campus Diadema, Zip 09972-270, Diadema, São Paulo, Brazil
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Centro de Ciências Biológicas e da Saúde, Universidade Federal de São Carlos, São Carlos, 13565-905, Brazil
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Centro de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Pernambuco, 50372-970, Brazil
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Centro Universitário Jorge Amado, Salvador, Bahia, 41745-130, Brazil
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Abstract Many studies in the past decade, mostly in temperate countries, have documented the effects of habitat loss
and fragmentation on species richness, composition, and abundance and the behaviour of pollinators. Changes in landscape
structure are considered to be the primary causes of the limitation of pollination services in agricultural systems. Here, we
review evidence of general patterns as well as gaps in knowledge that could be used to support the development of policies
for pollinator conservation and the restoration of degraded landscapes. Our results indicate a recent increase in the number
of studies on the relationships between pollination processes and landscape patterns, with some key trends already being
established. Many authors indicate, for example, that the spatial organization of a landscape has a great influence on the
survival and dispersal capacity of many pollinators, as spatial organization affects resource availability and determines the
functional connectivity of the landscape. Additionally, the shape, size and spatial arrangement of the patches of each type of
natural environment, as well as the occurrence of different types of land use, can create sites with different degrees of
connectivity or even barriers to movement between patches, which can deeply modify pollinator flows through the landscape
and consequently the success of cross-pollination. However, there are still some gaps, such as in the knowledge of which
critical values of habitat loss can lead to drastic increases in pollinator extinction rates, information that is needed to evaluate
at what point plant-pollinator interactions may collapse. We also need to concentrate research effort on improving a
landscape’s capacity to facilitate pollinator flow (connectivity) between crops and nesting/foraging areas.
Keywords: Pollinator-friendly landscapes, conservation, land management, matrix, land use, agricultural systems, pollinator crisis.
regions. According to Aizen et al. (2009), agriculture has
become more pollinator-dependent over time, and this trend
is more pronounced in the developing world, which
comprises almost all tropical regions, than the developed
world. They propose that a shortage of pollinators will
intensify the demand for agricultural land, a trend that will
also be more pronounced in the developing world. Thus, the
increases in total cultivated area needed to compensate for
pollination deficits would be smaller in developed countries
and larger in other parts of the world. This difference
suggests a future increase in land conflicts in the tropics as
well as the acceleration of deforestation processes and
intensification of human pressure on natural tropical
vegetation remnants, which has important practical
consequences such as increased species loss and the
subsequent deterioration of plant-pollinator networks, thus
further weakening pollination services (Carvalheiro et al.
2011, Garibaldi et al. 2011). In this context, there is an
acute need to quickly identify and overcome knowledge gaps
regarding the interplay between landscape patterns and
pollination processes and to directly apply new knowledge to
the management of productive and sustainable landscapes.
INTRODUCTION
The past decade has seen a worldwide concern over
pollinator decline (see COP 5 CBD section II decision v/5).
This concern has sparked a remarkable increase in studies
that identify threats to pollinators and quantify the impact of
pollinator decline on pollination services in natural and
agricultural systems. Most studies point to landscape changes
resulting from intensive land use and leading to habitat loss
and fragmentation as one of the primary threats to
pollination services (Kremen et al. 2002; Steffan-Dewenter &
Westphal 2008; Winfree et al. 2009). There is evidence that
several crops are directly affected by changes in landscape
structure, resulting in productivity loss that endangers both
biodiversity and the stability of food production in the
world (Steffan-Dewenter et al. 2005; Tscharntke et al. 2005;
Chacoff & Aizen 2006, Carvalheiro et al. 2010; Isaacs &
Kirk 2010).
Recent reviews indicate that pollinator loss in
agroecosystems is faster in the tropics than in temperate
Previous reviews and meta-analyses of pollination deficit
focused on particularly relevant questions: i) the importance
of changes in the abundance of foraging plants to bee
Received 31 August 2011, accepted 7 May 2012
*Corresponding author; email: blandefv@ufba.br
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conservation (Carvell et al. 2006, based on 14 datasets); ii)
the effect of habitat fragmentation on plant reproduction
(Aguillar et al. 2006, based on 54 studies); and iii) the
relationship between the distance from natural or seminatural habitats and pollination service (Ricketts et al. 2008,
based on 23 studies).
summarized into graphs and percentage analyses to allow a
critical understanding of the knowledge accrued over the
years. To facilitate the visual comparison of database fields
with numerous categories, some graphs of chronological
change are presented with the data clustered into
quinquennial groups of surveyed works.
Our present review is based on 219 studies, 166 of
which specifically address effects on pollinators, including a
broad range of questions about plant-pollinator interactions
from an ecological landscape perspective. This survey was
then summarized into a scientometric analysis that enabled
the quantitative and qualitative evaluation of temporal trends
in the knowledge produced in this research area beginning
when this subject first appeared in the literature. Thus, our
study presents the results of a broad literature review of the
effects of landscape changes on pollinators and pollination
services. Through this review, we sought to identify
underlying patterns and gaps in knowledge as well as to help
with the development of guidelines for research and
conservation that could support new policies at the landscape
level to minimize pollination deficits in areas degraded by
intensive land use.
Conceptual
standardization
First, we present a brief description of the methods used
for the literature review and data analysis. Next, we discuss
the conceptual problems identified in the publications
reviewed, which were related to landscape ecology, and the
terminology standardization used in our study. Then, we
present the most important general patterns observed and
our primary findings. Finally, we note gaps in the existing
knowledge that must be addressed by research programs
aimed at meeting the demands for conservation and
sustainable management of pollinators at the landscape level.
MATERIAL AND METHODS
Database
The survey was carried out in late July 2011 in the Web
of Science - Science Citation Index Expanded
(http://portal.isiknowledge.com/), using the combination
of the keywords ‘Landscape AND Pollinat*’. The search was
made with the filter ‘topic’ that searches for words defined in
the title, keywords and in the body of the text. At a
preliminary stage, we selected all articles that dealt directly
with the effects of landscape changes on pollinators and
pollination services. For analyzing the articles, a database was
created that included a standardized list of the articles, which
enabled compiling and quantifying the characteristics of
those studies. This database is composed of 25 fields (Tab.
1) selected for the purpose of extracting information from
each analyzed publication within a scientometric perspective,
enabling us to measure and quantify the scientific and
technological progress within this research topic.
From this database, chronological changes and other
possible interrelationships between any fields could easily be
extracted to perform exploratory analyses with the aim of
identifying general patterns and the temporal evolution of
worldwide trends in the scientific literature on the
relationship between landscape structure and the availability
of pollinators and pollination services. These trends were
problems
and
terminology
The definition of concepts, and in some cases their
standardization, is an important step in surveying scientific
knowledge for environmental management purposes. The
greatest problem with the inadequate conceptualization and
standardization of scientific terms is the risk of attributing
the effect of a certain entity to a similar but essentially
different factor, which can make it difficult to understand
the text or lead to mistaken conclusions.
Some of the analyzed articles clearly confounded the
processes of habitat loss and habitat fragmentation.
According to Fahrig (2003), this kind of confusion should
be avoided because the consequences of those processes for
biological conservation are essentially different, although
they usually occur together in nature. This confusion is less
frequent, but not absent, in papers from 2004 on.
Another controversial concept was the definition of a
‘landscape matrix’, a term that has been used in several ways
in the landscape ecology literature. The most-used concepts
define the matrix as a ‘dominant unit of the landscape’
(spatially or functionally) or as a ‘set of non-habitat units’
(Metzger 2001); both characterize the matrix as a landscape
feature. However, in many of the studies analyzed in the
present review, the word ‘matrix’ was frequently used without
an explicit definition, for example, to mean the areas adjacent
to the studied fragment, which could be better defined as
context or type of fringing environments, depending on the
situation. Many times, those definitions were unspecific, thus
making direct interpretations difficult. The same problem
was also identified for the concepts of patch, fragment,
corridor and even landscape.
Hence, to avoid making mistaken conclusions derived
from conceptual problems, we decided to standardize all of
the technical terminology related to landscape ecology in
accordance with the review by Metzger (2001) and also with
the formal concepts of fragmentation and habitat loss
proposed by Fahrig (2003). Therefore, in the present study,
landscape is defined as ‘a heterogeneous mosaic formed by
interactive units, given that this heterogeneity exists for at
least one factor, according to one observer and at a given
scale of observation’ (Metzger 2001). This concept is
relatively broad, as it enables a wide variety of units/habitats
of different sizes to be considered landscapes. However, it
establishes minimum criteria for us to use to separate the
landscape from its constitutive elements such as patches,
corridors, edges and different types of environments.
This standardization was used to organize the structure
of our database to eliminate a priori the conceptual
confusion from some articles and to standardize our analysis.
Hence, information from all articles was revised and
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TABLE I. Information selected for the analysis and its respective categories. For all items we included also a category: ‘information not mentioned
by the author’. The items “Landscape context” and “Landscape approach level” were described following Metzger (2001) and Fahrig (2003).
Items for analysis
Publication year
Surname of the first author
Country of the first author
Journal title
Geographic location of the study area (country and geographic
coordinates)
Ecoregion/climatic zone where the study was carried out
Ecosystem
The kind of landscape matrix was explicitly declared by the
authors
Kind
of matrix
Landscape context
Nature of the study
Nature of the method
Nature of the objectives of the study
Landscape approach level
Size of the study area (total sampling range)
Level of biological organization analyzed (unit mentioned by the
author)
Study object
Response variables described by the author
Independent explanatory variables described by the author
Type of relationship between the explanatory and response
variables or taxonomic group studied
Functional
Sampling method
Pollinator specialization as described by the author
Pollinator sociality
Number of citations until July 2011
standardized according to the concepts used in Metzger
(2001) and Fahrig (2003) and corrected in our data matrices
by including standardized columns, which are presented in
Tab. 1.
Another important aspect for properly assessing the
studies was the minimum relevant information that should
be reported in the publications, but that, in most cases, was
omitted by the authors. Some of the missing information
was, for example, the extent of the study area and the types
of land uses surrounding the studied patches (Tab. 1). When
that type of information was implicit in the article we made
an effort to recover and explicitly include it in our analysis.
Categories
–
–
–
–
–
1. tropical (including subtropical), 2. temperate (including boreal)
1. agriculture, 2. forest, 3. grasslands, 4. savannah, 5. desert, 6. urban, 7.
agroforestry system (AFS)
1. yes, 2. No
1. natural, 2. silviculture, 3. agriculture, 4. urban
1. natural, 2. agriculture, 3. urban, 4. mixed
1. empiric, 2. review, 3. meta-analysis, 4. modelling, 5. conceptual, 6. opinion,
7. editorial
1. descriptive, 2. bibliographic survey, 3. observational (sampling), 4.
experimental, 5. modelling, 6. meta-analysis
1. descriptive, 2. establishing relationships, 3. modelling, 4. review
1. landscape, 2. buffers, 3. patches, 4. intra-patches
1. up to 1 ha, 2. between 1 and 10 ha, 3. between 10 and 100 ha, 4. between
100 and 1 000 ha, 5. > 1 000 ha, 6. global, 7. not specified
1. individuals; 2. populations, 3. communities
1. pollinator, 2. plant, 3. plant/pollinator interactions
–
–
1. directly proportional, 2. inversely proportional, 3. no relationship
–
1. pan-trap, 2. trap-nest, 3. entomological net, 4. Focal observation, 5.
counting of the frequency of visitors, 6. translocation, 7. baits, 8. others
1. generalist, 2. specialist, 3. not specified
1. social, 2. solitary
–
In general, we observed a dominance of purely scientific
journals specialized in ecology and conservation with barely
any journals focusing on agricultural sciences, applied land
management or food production technologies. This indicates
that the relationship between landscape patterns and
pollinator availability is not yet perceived as economically
RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
General patterns
In the present review, we found 219 studies focusing on
ecological landscapes and pollination processes. Those
studies had primarily been published since 2001 (Fig. 1) in
60 journals. Thirty-five of those journals represented only
one article, whereas the journal Biological Conservation
published 25 of the analyzed studies (11.4%; Appendix II).
FIGURE 1. Temporal change of the number of articles that deal
with pollinators and pollination services in the landscape until July
2011 (N = 219).
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relevant outside of the biological and/or ecological sciences.
Most studies were empirical/observational (166 studies;
75.8%), but some were reviews (29; 13.24%) that aimed to
consolidate information, with a trend toward an increasing
annual production of reviews (Fig. 2). We also identified
nine modelling studies (4.1%), all from 2007 on.
The most frequently assessed biological organization
levels were community (118 studies, 53.9%) and population
(63 studies, 28.8%). Only 8 studies (3.6%) encompassed
both communities and populations, and 7 studies (3.19%)
focused on the behavioural responses of individual
pollinators. From all 219 of the published studies initially
selected by searching the online database, 166 (75.8%)
directly addressed pollinators’ response to landscape changes.
Out of these 166 studies, 145 (87.3%) aimed to establish
causal relationships between landscape patterns and
pollinators availability, and 4 studies (2.41%) had merely
descriptive approaches.
The first scientific study that explicitly analyzed the
effects of changes in the spatial distribution of habitat on the
activity of pollinator species was carried out in Brazil in the
central Amazon (Powell & Powell 1987). However, between
its publication and the year 2000, there was no meaningful
increase in the number of studies on the relationship between
changes in landscape structure and pollination processes, the
literature being limited to only 15 (6.8%) papers in 13 years.
It is worthwhile to highlight that among those publications
are the empirical studies carried out by Aizen & Feinsinger
(1994a; b) in Argentina, which used a community approach
and reported a decrease in the richness and abundance of
native pollinators in small and isolated fragments compared
to continuous environments, with strong consequences for
pollination. Those early studies can be considered the
pioneers in establishing relationships between landscape
structure, pollinator diversity and pollination processes.
It was only after 2000 that we could identify an increase
in the number of papers on the effects of landscape structure
on pollinators (Fig. 1). We found only 10 publications
(6.2% of the 161 studies) between 1996 and 2000, whereas
in the two subsequent quinquennia 51 (23.3%) and 151
(68.9%) papers were published, respectively. This increase
FIGURE 2. Number of studies of each type in 4-year time
intervals from January, 1986 to July, 2011. (N = 219)
was due primarily to the effort of work-groups from the
United States, Germany and England (Fig. 3). This increase
was most likely stimulated by the worldwide pollinator crisis
identified in the previous decade (Buchmann & Nabhan
1996; Kearns et al. 1998), which created a scientific demand
for an understanding of the causes of pollinator decline,
particularly the decline of bee populations in the northern
hemisphere.
This temporal pattern of increasing publications was
uneven between the climatic zones where the studies were
carried out (Fig. 4). Our overall results indicated a clear
trend toward an increase in the number of studies developed
in temperate zones compared to tropical zones. Between
2001 and 2005, both climatic zones were similarly
represented in terms of the number of publications with
slightly more works carried out in tropical environments (16
studies in temperate regions and 19 in tropical regions).
However, in the five following years (2006 to 2011), there
was a great increase in the number of studies produced in
temperate areas (79) that was not accompanied by an
increased number of studies produced in the tropics in the
same period (43). Among all 219 studies, most compared
patches of the same landscape and few compared different
FIGURE 3. Country of the
first authors of studies which
are directly related to
pollinators
responses
to
landscape changes, revisions
were excluded from this
analysis (N = 146).
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FIGURE 4. Overall number of studies produced in each one of
the Climate zones by period (N= 219)
FIGURE 5. Temporal changes (number of studies/period) of
the approach Level of the study (N= 219).
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landscapes, indicating that most of the available information
is at the patch rather than the landscape level; this continued
to occur in the last six years (Fig. 5). Only a few studies
approached the problem at hand using whole landscapes as
sampling units; about half of those studies used fixed
distances around sampling sites (buffers) to assess how
landscape structure affected pollinators. There was a
noticeable increase in the number of publications using this
type of approach after 2005 (Fig. 5). Additionally, we
observed a large variation in the absolute meaning of patch
size categories among studies, with no standardization of
categories. The same patch size could be categorized as
“large” in one study but “small” in another, even when the
two studies addressed closely related organisms or processes.
In addition, 77 studies did not provide any information on
the size of the landscapes/patches studied. Out of the
studies that provide information on habitat size (124), most
(42) assessed patches or landscapes larger than 1 000 ha
(Fig. 6).
We could also identify in our review a temporal change
in the importance assigned to the inter-habitat matrix.
References to matrix characteristics were scarce until 2005
(less than a third of articles) (Appendix III A). However,
after 2006 the matrix began to be mentioned more
frequently. In this period, the number of studies that did not
cite matrix characteristics or left them implicit was very
similar to the number of articles that commented explicitly
about this matter. The proportion of studies that mention
the matrix is also increasing among the full set of analyzed
studies in the last decade (Appendix III A). This indicates a
significant increase in interest in this aspect of the landscape,
whose importance had already been noted in some existing
publications (Clergeau & Burel 1997; Develey & Stouffer
2001; Rejinfo 2001). Among the 166 studies that focused
on the relationship between the landscape and pollinators,
most reported matrices composed of mixed, agricultural or
natural environments (Appendix III B). The matrices
composed of pastures, urban environments and silvicultures
were few and represented similar numbers. After 2006, only
a few empirical studies provided no information on the
spatial context where the work was carried out.
Primary qualitative findings
FIGURE 6. Temporal changes (number of studies/period) of
landscape or patch size where the studies were carried out. Only
those studies that specified patch or landscape size were considered.
(N= 124).
In spite of the need for advancing the work of existing
studies, some relationships could be clearly established in the
surveyed literature. Many authors demonstrated that the
spatial organization of the landscape has a great influence on
the survival and dispersal capacity of many pollinator species,
as spatial organization affects resource availability
(Andersson et al. 2007, Jha & Vandermeer 2010; Cruz-Neto
et al. 2011; Roulston & Goodell 2011) and determines
functional connectivity, i.e., ‘the capacity of the landscape (or
landscape units) to facilitate biological flows’ (Metzger
2001) in a given region (Steffan-Dewenter & Tscharntke
1999; Brosi et al. 2007). The shape, size and spatial
arrangement of the patches of each type of natural
environment as well as the occurrence of different types of
land use can create sites with different degrees of
connectivity or even barriers that impede animal movement
through the landscape (Kreyer et al. 2004; Ekroos et al.
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2008; Ricketts et al. 2008), which can strongly modify
pollinator flows and consequently the success of crosspollination (Gathmann & Tscharntke 2002; Goverde et al.
2002).
It is also widely known that higher proportions of
natural or semi-natural environments in the landscape enable
the maintenance of pollinator species that would otherwise
go locally extinct with the suppression of the native
vegetation (Laurance et al. 2002; Lennartson 2002; Taki &
Kevan 2007; Hadley & Betts 2009). Although many types of
crops are able to provide food to many pollinator species
(Westphal et al. 2003; Albrecht et al. 2007; Holzschuh et al.
2008; Klein et al. 2008), food is not the only resource
needed for pollinators’ survival. In addition to food, animals
need adequate sites for nesting and reproduction (SteffanDewenter & Tschanrtke, 1999; Knight et al., 2009). For
many pollinator species, those sites are found more
frequently in natural environments (Gathmann &
Tscharntke. 2002, Westphal et al., 2003, Dixon, 2009)
composed of primary vegetation or as the result of natural
regeneration or restoration initiatives (Goverde et al. 2002;
Kremen et al. 2007).
Many studies demonstrated that reductions in the size
and number of natural remnants in the landscape can have
deleterious effects on many species (e.g., Beier et al. 2002;
Kremen et al. 2004; 2007, Cortes-Delgado & Perz-Torres
2011; Cruz-Neto et al. 2011). As large patches tend to have
higher environmental diversity, they usually maintain more
diverse communities of pollinators than smaller patches
(Aizen & Feinsinger 1994b; Tscharntke & Brandl 2004). In
fact, Steffan-Dewenter et al. (2001) postulate that the
number of visitors to a flower in sites with intensive
agricultural management in central Germany increases
significantly in landscapes with more types of semi-natural
environments, which characterizes them as more complex in
comparison to landscapes dominated by monospecific crops.
Those studies reinforce the importance of preserving native
vegetation patches with enough area to maintain several
pollinator species in the landscape, particularly in the case of
specialist species restricted to only a few habitat types
(Tscharntke & Brandl 2004; Tscharntke et al. 2005).
However, the minimum size needed for native vegetation
patches to ensure the survival of those pollinator species and
the conservation of their pollination services is uncertain and
most likely differs for different ecosystems and species
(Aizen & Feinsinger 1994a; Kremen et al. 2004; Ricketts et
al. 2004; Tscharntke et al. 2008).
In addition to the extent of natural environments, several
authors indicate that the distance between patches has been
one of the primary factors to affect the long-term
maintenance of many species (Wiens 1995; Lennartson
2002; Smith & Hellmann 2002, Lander et al. 2010). This
occurs because variations in the distances between habitat
remnants change the landscape’s connectivity, which can
restrict the movement of individuals through the landscape
and the establishment of new populations. Large inter-patch
distances may also directly affect the accessibility of floral
resources for individuals, threatening the floral visitors’
populations. Studies indicate that the abundance and
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richness of native pollinators may increase significantly as the
distance to natural environments decreases, which also affects
agricultural production (Steffan-Dewenter & Tschanrtke
1999; Greenleaf & Kremen 2006, Klein 2009; Tscharntke et
al. 2011). In the state of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil,
for example, De Marco & Coelho (2004) reported that the
proximity of crops to native vegetation resulted in a 14.6%
higher coffee production compared to farms further from
native vegetation. Similar results were observed in Indonesia
(Klein et al. 2003) and in Costa Rica (Ricketts et al. 2004).
In some cases, these variations in the landscape structure can
even lead to behavioural changes in native pollinators
(Osborne et al. 1999; Goverde et al. 2002), affecting their
interactions with other species. In North American
landscapes, for example, it was observed that the proximity
of natural vegetation patches to sunflower crops increases the
number of native bees, which compete with exotic bees (Apis
mellifera). This surplus of pollinators leads to a more
efficient cross-pollination process, incurring higher seed
production (Greenleaf & Kremen 2006).
In addition to proximity to natural habitats, the matrix
surrounding native vegetation patches, which is usually
composed of different types of crops and agricultural
management regimes, also exerts a strong influence on the
behaviour and local maintenance of pollinators (Osborne et
al. 1999). What has been established in the literature,
primarily from the early 1990s on, is that the isolation level
of native habitats and crops depends on the interaction
between the pollinators’ biological characteristics and the
hostility of the matrix, resulting in both negative and positive
effects depending on the species (Jules & Shahani 2003;
Tscharntke & Brandl 2004; Ricketts et al. 2008; Brittain et
al. 2010; Carvalheiro et al. 2010; 2011). Indeed, some
studies have indicated that the characteristics of the matrix
are an essential factor in the maintenance of a landscape’s
functional connectivity, with some pollinator species even
benefiting from some agricultural activities (Westphal et al.
2003; Klein et al. 2007). Based on a compilation of 22 years
of research in fragmented landscapes in the Amazon,
Laurance et al. (2002) concluded that, due to the existence
of a wide variety of responses to fragmentation, the interforest matrix can maintain high species richness, even leading
to an increase in beta diversity in fragmented landscapes.
However, because species that avoid the matrix tend to be
the first to go extinct after fragmentation (Jules & Shahani
2003; Westphal et al. 2003; Tscharntke & Brandl 2004,
Cussans et al. 2010; Kamm et al. 2010), we believe that the
maintenance of a high diversity of native pollinators in the
landscape requires that both the matrix and the surrounding
natural habitats be sufficiently diversified.
The services provided by pollinators include the
pollination of native plant species in patches of natural
vegetation as well as the pollination of crops in agricultural
areas. The magnitude of the effect of habitat fragmentation
on plant reproduction in natural vegetation remnants was
analyzed by Aguilar et al. (2006) based on 54 studies. These
authors observed that reductions in patch size and increases
in the isolation of natural habitat fragments have generally
negative effects on pollination and on fruit and seed
production in the native species studied. Among the effects
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that we compiled from our survey, the most evident are
related to the size of the native vegetation remnants where
pollinator populations live. In small native vegetation
fragments, plants tend to receive limited pollination services
and exhibit lower fruit and seed production (Donaldson et
al. 2002; Brys et al. 2004; Kolb 2008; González-Varo et al.
2009; Taki et al. 2010). Moreover, we found studies
demonstrating that fragmentation and habitat loss can lead
to a dramatic simplification of pollinator interaction
networks due to a decrease in the availability of specialized
and rare pollinators (e.g., Donaldson et al. 2002; Brosi et al.
2007) For instance, the loss of some pollinator groups such
as birds, flies and non-flying mammals impaired pollination
and consequently the reproduction of several plant species in
some fragments of the Brazilian Atlantic forest (Lopes et al.
2009). As a result, second growth forest patches developed
plant assemblages with a higher frequency of species and
individuals that are pollinated by generalist vectors with
approximately 30% lower functional diversity of pollination
interactions in comparison to continuous mature forest areas
(see Girão et al. 2007; Lopes et al. 2009; Cruz-Neto et al.
2011).
Furthermore, in our review, we also observed that selfincompatible species, which depend completely on
pollinators for sexual reproduction, are the most susceptible
to habitat fragmentation (Aguilar et al. 2006; Girão et al.
2007; Lopes et al. 2009; Tabarelli et al. 2010; Cruz-Neto et
al. 2011). With these results, we suggest that fragmentation
promotes a remarkable change in the relative abundance of
certain reproductive attributes of Atlantic forest trees and
that it largely reduces the reproductive functional diversity of
tree assemblages. Therefore, in fragmented landscapes, it is
likely that small fragments and narrow forest corridors, both
dominated by edge effects (Murcia 1995), are not sufficient
on their own to conserve the complete diversity of life
histories of trees and their mutualists (Lopes et al. 2009).
Regarding agricultural landscapes, Aizen et al. (2009)
estimated that in the absence of pollinating services rendered
by animals, world agricultural production might decrease by
up to 8%, with clear social and economic impacts.
According to these authors, worldwide agricultural
production has historically increased at a rate of
approximately 1.5% per year, and there is no evidence of
global variation in the productivity of species that are
dependent on vs. independent of pollinators (Aizen et al.
2009). However, we found several studies showing evidence
of the effects of the composition (i.e., which ecosystems are
there and in what proportion) and disposition (i.e., how
those ecosystems are distributed in space) of landscape
elements on agricultural production (Klein et al. 2003; De
Marco & Coelho 2004; Ricketts et al. 2004, GemmillHerren & Ochieng 2008, Phalan et al. 2011), which
indicates that unplanned changes in landscape pattern can
reduce the productivity of pollinator-dependent crops.
Knowledge gaps to be explored
All of the information discussed above highlights the
importance of areas of natural vegetation for the
maintenance of pollinator species and their associated flora.
Based on our results, we suggest that, in general, agricultural
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landscapes must be interspersed with natural and seminatural vegetation patches for the maintenance of proper
pollination services in native and human-made environments.
Obviously, variations among different ecosystems and species
and their interactions with their surroundings must be
considered. The relationship between landscape structure
and pollinator survival and behavioural responses is a very
complex subject that has only recently begun to be revealed
(Bélisle 2005). Therefore, to advance our knowledge of
those relationships and understand how the composition and
configuration of the landscape affects plant-pollinator
interactions, more studies are needed that address the
diversity of pollinators and population attributes (such as
density fluctuations and survival) and can explain changes in
diversity and behavioural attributes (such as mobility and
foraging patterns) that could modify the efficiency of
individuals as pollinators.
That type of research is particularly needed for tropical
ecosystems, where the recent increase in the number of
studies has been lower than in temperate regions and where
the higher diversity of plants and pollinators impedes a more
thorough knowledge of these systems. Due to the high
worldwide importance of those regions for the production of
food and primary agricultural goods, more attention should
be given to the development of knowledge of pollinators and
pollination processes in complex tropical landscapes. Highdiversity tropical regions are usually located in developing
countries, which commonly have limited funds and
specialized personnel with which to conduct high quality
environmental research (e.g., Stocks et al. 2008).
International scientific cooperation could reinforce national
research programs.
Starting from a broader perspective, the complexity of
plant-pollinator systems and the broad spatial scale necessary
for studies of landscape ecology indicate that larger research
teams and greater cooperation are needed to compare
landscapes rather than patches within the same landscape, the
more frequent approach. One aspect that is strongly
highlighted in the literature is the risk that the processes of
fragmentation and reduction of habitat area pose to the
conservation of pollinators and the maintenance of
pollination services worldwide. Lennartson (2002) states
that the processes of habitat loss and fragmentation can lead
to abrupt qualitative changes in landscape structure, limiting
the survival and movement of pollinators. Those processes
may result in species extinctions due to threshold dynamics,
deeply affecting the viability of biological populations and
communities beyond a certain degree of habitat loss (Andrén
1994; Metzger & Décamps 1997). Local extinctions could
lead to the disruption of plant-pollinator interactions with
unpredictable consequences for the maintenance of
biodiversity and environmental services (e.g., SteffanDewenter & Tscharntke 1999; Girão et al. 2007; Brosi et al.
2008; Lopes et al. 2009; Tabarelli et al. 2010). The
identification of those thresholds and their implications is of
extreme importance for the conservation of natural
environments. To properly conserve biological diversity and
its associated processes, habitat loss should never reach such
extinction thresholds (Radford et al. 2005). Public policies
and legal enforcement should be substantially based on
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scientific knowledge and precautionary principles to
guarantee that the status of the landscape remains well above
these modification-inducing levels. To do this, it is necessary
to determine which critical values of habitat loss can lead to
drastic increases in pollinator extinction rates so that we can
evaluate at what point plant-pollinator interactions may
collapse. However, determining such values for each region is
an extremely difficult task, as this most likely varies among
systems. Ideally, conservation strategies should be grounded
in research conducted in the same region or in areas with
similar ecological characteristics.
Similarly, we should concentrate efforts on acquiring the
necessary knowledge to improve the landscape’s capacity to
facilitate pollinator flow (connectivity) between crop areas
and nesting and foraging habitats. However, due to huge
interspecific variations in pollinators’ capacity to use and
move between landscape components such as natural
vegetation corridors or large extents of anthropogenic
environments, our search for new techniques for integrated
landscape management must aim at the maintenance of not
only structural but functional connectivity between
environments. In this way, it would be possible to ensure
effective pollen flow and, consequently, fruit and seed
production. Therefore, it is essential that we understand how
pollen is dispersed, and to do so we must investigate the
factors that affect pollinator mobility. However, to complete
this task, methodological and technological obstacles must
be overcome. Because most pollinators are tiny animals such
as bees, most telemetry equipment is still too large or heavy
to be carried by individuals. This hinders the direct
assessment of movement behaviour in the landscape and
consequently most of the presently available information on
this subject comes from indirect observations and/or
deductive conclusions based on basic biology. Nevertheless,
new technologies have been developed in the last decade,
such as harmonic radars for honeybee-sized animals
(Osborne et al. 1999) or radio-tracking for bumble bees
(Hagen et al. 2011), which will enable important
developments in our understanding of pollinator spacing
behaviours in coming years. The development of better
individual tracking technologies will inevitably lead to more
detailed studies on pollinator movement through the
landscape, which together with the knowledge already
available in the literature will lead to the development of
better tools and guidelines for the management and design of
landscapes with highly efficient ecosystem services, also
ensuring the long-term conservation of pollination services in
agro-natural systems.
The integrated management of landscapes based on
scientific knowledge can compensate for global habitat loss
(Ricketts et al. 2004; Tscharntke & Brandl 2004), as
structurally complex landscapes with good habitat
connectivity have proven to be more efficient in the
maintenance of species diversity (Tscharntke et al. 2007).
Additionally, simple changes in agricultural management
such as the restricted use of pesticides and the sowing of
species used by pollinators along crop edges can result in
important improvements in landscape quality (Kremen et al.
2004, Gabriel et al. 2010; Carvalheiro et al. 2011; Krauss et
al. 2011; Kovács-Hostyánszki et al. 2011).
J Poll Ecol 7(5)
Furthermore, for the integrated management of
landscapes to become a reality for land use planning, in
addition to incentives for excellent scientific research in areas
related to the topics discussed herein (which will provide a
technical basis for decisions on land use), public policies are
needed to stimulate the following: 1) incentives for the
creation of land use categories that enable pollinator flow
and enhance pollen flow and the sexual cross-reproduction
of native and cultivated plants in agrosystems and their
surroundings; 2) the natural regeneration or restoration of
pollinator-friendly habitats in sites where those environments
have been degraded; 3) the monitoring of plant species that
provide feeding and nesting resources for pollinators; 4) the
conservation of key elements such as habitat patches and
corridors that support the structural and functional
complexity of the landscape; 5) population increases in
managed native pollinator species in the vicinity of crops,
thus ensuring their access to floral resources; and 6) planned
reforestation at a regional scale, using multiple native species
that will serve as resources for pollinators and that must be
positioned in such a way as to improve pollen flow in the
landscape.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
We thank professors Dr. Vera L. Imperatriz Fonseca, Dr.
Antônio Mauro Saraiva from USP and Dr. Dora A.L. Canhos from
the Reference Center on Environmental Information - CRIA, the
coordinators of the Brazilian Research Council - CNPq project
‘Avaliação do uso sustentável e conservação dos serviços ambientais
realizados pelos polinizadores no Brasil’, for the support given to
our study. We also thank the anonymous referees whose comments
improved the final version of the manuscript. BFV and AVL
received productivity fellowships from CNPq.
APPENDICES
Additional supporting information may be found in the
online version of this article:
APPENDIX I. List of articles selected for analysis
APPENDIX II. Graphical representation of the number of
analyzed articles published per journal
APPENDIX III. Graphical representation of the temporal
changes of studies that mention the matrix (A) and matrix type (B).
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