title: Safeguarding pollinators and their values to human well-being.
abstract: Wild and managed pollinators provide a wide range of benefits to society in terms of contributions to food security, farmer and beekeeper livelihoods, social and cultural values, as well as the maintenance of wider biodiversity and ecosystem stability. Pollinators face numerous threats, including changes in land-use and management intensity, climate change, pesticides and genetically modified crops, pollinator management and pathogens, and invasive alien species. There are well-documented declines in some wild and managed pollinators in several regions of the world. However, many effective policy and management responses can be implemented to safeguard pollinators and sustain pollination services.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AR, UK.
authors.forename: Simon G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Potts
authors.affiliation: Ecology Department, Biosciences Institute, S. Paulo University, 05508-090 S. Paulo Brazil and Vale Institute of Technology Sustainable Development, Belém 66055-090, Brazil.
authors.forename: Vera
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Imperatriz-Fonseca
authors.affiliation: Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), IPBES Secretariat, UN Campus, Platz der Vereinten Nationen 1, Bonn D-53113, Germany.
authors.forename: Hien T
authors.initials: HT
authors.lastname: Ngo
authors.affiliation: Laboratorio Ecotono, INIBIOMA-CONICET and Centro Regional Bariloche, Universidad Nacional del Comahue, Quintral 1250, 8400 San Carlos de Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentina.
authors.forename: Marcelo A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Aizen
authors.affiliation: Naturalis Biodiversity Center, PO Box 9517, Leiden 2300 RA, The Netherlands.|Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam P.O. Box 94248, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Jacobus C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Biesmeijer
authors.affiliation: Centre for Agri-Environmental Research, School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading, Reading RG6 6AR, UK.
authors.forename: Thomas D
authors.initials: TD
authors.lastname: Breeze
authors.affiliation: School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TL, UK.
authors.forename: Lynn V
authors.initials: LV
authors.lastname: Dicks
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Investigaciones en Recursos Naturales, Agroecología y Desarrollo Rural (IRNAD), Sede Andina, Universidad Nacional de Río Negro (UNRN), and Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Mitre 630, CP 8400, San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina.
authors.forename: Lucas A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Garibaldi
authors.affiliation: CSIRO Land and Water and James Cook University Division of Tropical Environments and Societies, Box 12139, Earlville BC, Cairns, Queensland 4870, Australia.
authors.forename: Rosemary
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hill
authors.affiliation: Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ, Department of Community Ecology, Theodor-Lieser-Strasse 4, 06210 Halle, Germany.|iDiv, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Deutscher Platz 5e, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
authors.forename: Josef
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Settele
authors.affiliation: NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, Bush Estate, Penicuik, Edinburgh EH26 0QB, UK.
authors.forename: Adam J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Vanbergen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001516:Bees / Q000502:physiology; D002080:Butterflies / Q000502:physiology; D057231:Climate Change; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources / Q000639:trends*; D000069599:Crop Production / Q000191:economics; D018556:Crops, Agricultural / Q000235:genetics / Q000502:physiology; D017753:Ecosystem; D058735:Environmental Policy / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D007313:Insecta / Q000502:physiology*; D058865:Introduced Species; D010575:Pesticides / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000633:toxicity; D030821:Plants, Genetically Modified / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics; D054817:Pollination; D011157:Population Dynamics; D014714:Vertebrates / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D010575:Pesticides