[Pollinator] new paper about pollinator declines

[David Inouye]

Potts, S. G., J. C. Biesmeijer, et al. (2010). "Global pollinator 
declines: trends, impacts and drivers." Trends in Ecology & Evolution 
25(6): 345-353.
         Pollinators are a key component of global biodiversity, 
providing vital ecosystem services to crops and wild plants. There is 
clear evidence of recent declines in both wild and domesticated 
pollinators, and parallel declines in the plants that rely upon them. 
Here we describe the nature and extent of reported declines, and 
review the potential drivers of pollinator loss, including habitat 
loss and fragmentation, agrochemicals, pathogens, alien species, 
climate change and the interactions between them. Pollinator declines 
can result in loss of pollination services which have important 
negative ecological and economic impacts that could significantly 
affect the maintenance of wild plant diversity, wider ecosystem 
stability, crop production, food security and human welfare.