Understanding interactive effects between habitat configuration and pesticide use for pollination: towards better informed landscape management.

IF 4.6 2区 环境科学与生态学 Q1 ECOLOGY
Ecological Processes Pub Date : 2025-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-03-03 DOI:10.1186/s13717-025-00587-z
Swantje Gebhardt, Jerry van Dijk, Marjolein E Lof, Martin J Wassen, Martha Bakker
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Abstract

Background: The restoration of natural landscape elements is a frequently adopted pathway to improve wild pollinator abundance, diversity, and their pollination services in intensively used agricultural landscapes. However, pollinators in the intended refuges can become exposed to agrochemicals when foraging in surrounding agricultural fields. In order to effectively design pollinator conservation measures such as habitat restoration or pesticide reduction schemes, the effect of land use configuration on pesticide exposure and pollination service requires further investigation.

Methods: We developed a pollination model that extends existing approaches by simulating both pollination flights and concurrent pollinator exposure to toxic pesticides, enabling the estimation of pesticide impacts on pollination services. We calculated pollination service and pollinator health for a set of artificial landscapes, which varied in the percentage of pollinator habitat and agriculture, in the clustering of these land uses, as well as in the pollinator mortality hazard arising from the pesticides applied on agriculture.

Results: Our results show that in landscapes with less than 10% habitat and highly toxic pesticides, pollination services are mostly safeguarded by compact patches of habitat, as this configuration shelters more habitat from pesticide exposure. With increasing habitat amount or with pesticide applications causing less than 50% mortality in pollinators, more dispersed patches of habitat achieve a better pollination service for the landscape. We further tested the effect of pesticide application for different foraging ranges in a more realistic land use scenario. For pollinators with shorter foraging ranges, pesticide exposure from the immediate surroundings determines the achieved pollination. For species with longer foraging ranges, the availability of resources and the application of pesticides at landscape scale controls the pollination.

Conclusion: Our study highlights the importance of assessing spatial configuration effects on pesticide exposure for local pollinators. By applying these insights, land managers can devise land use arrangements to protect pollinator habitats and establish buffer zones to support pollinator activity in pesticide-intensive landscapes. As current guidelines largely lack spatially-explicit measures, we suggest to direct future research and policies towards the underlying spatial processes and their facilitation on parcel, farm, and landscape scale.

Supplementary information: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13717-025-00587-z.

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Ecological Processes
Ecological Processes Environmental Science-Ecological Modeling
CiteScore
8.50
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4.20%
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64
审稿时长
13 weeks
期刊介绍: Ecological Processes is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal devoted to quality publications in ecological studies with a focus on the underlying processes responsible for the dynamics and functions of ecological systems at multiple spatial and temporal scales. The journal welcomes manuscripts on techniques, approaches, concepts, models, reviews, syntheses, short communications and applied research for advancing our knowledge and capability toward sustainability of ecosystems and the environment. Integrations of ecological and socio-economic processes are strongly encouraged.
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