Is Pollinator Collapse Possible and What Would it Mean?

It remains unlikely that all important pollinator taxa will uniformly
decline throughout a given region or across the span of regions where
any given crop is grown. For example, preliminary European studies of
pollinator community responses to factors such as agricultural intensification
and loss of pollinator habitat suggest that these do not so much
lead to general pollinator decline, but rather, a homogenization in
which a handful of pollinator taxa dominate.

Where is the value in valuing pollination ecosystem services to agriculture?
Andony P. Melathopoulos, G. Christopher Cutler, Peter Tyedmers
Ecological Economics 109 (2015) 59–70

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