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JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC ENTOMOLOGY
卷 108, 期 3, 页码 849-857出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/jee/tov093
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ecosystem service; bee; food production; agriculture
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资金
- National Council of Technological and Scientific Development (CNPq) [472702/2013-0]
- Sao Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) [2011/06811-5]
- Biodiversity and Computation (Biocomp, University of Sao Paulo)
- Fundacao de Amparo a Pesquisa do Estado de Sao Paulo (FAPESP) [11/06811-5] Funding Source: FAPESP
Food production is challenged by changes in climate and land use and expanding human population growth. Proper pollination can increase the production and quality of fruit, nut, oil, and fiber crops. We reviewed crop dependence on pollinators and estimated the economic value of pollination per year for each crop in Brazil. We analyzed 141 crops and found that 85 depend on pollinators. Almost one-third of these crops have an essential or great dependence on pollinators. The economic contribution of pollinators totals similar to 30% (similar to US$12 billion) of the total annual agricultural income of the dependent crops (totalizing almost US$45 billion). However, half of these figures includes soybean crop (US$5.7 billion of pollinators' contribution and US$22 billion of annual income). Soybean was considered as having a modest dependence on pollinators, but this remains controversial because pollinator dependence might vary among different varieties cultivated in Brazil. Moreover, we have no information about pollinator dependence regarding some important crops, showing the urgent need for basic research into reproductive biology and pollination ecology.
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