James H. Cane

TL;DR: It is found that fruit, vegetable or seed production from 87 of the leading global food crops is dependent upon animal pollination, while 28 crops do not rely upon animalPollination, however, global production volumes give a contrasting perspective.

TL;DR: The work group encourages increased education and training to ensure that both the lay public and resource managers understand that pollination is one of the most important ecological services provided to agriculture through the responsible management and protection of wildland habitats and their populations of pollen-vectoring animals and nectar-producing plants.

TL;DR: Study on the mechanism(s) of pollen digestion remain inconclusive, but suggest that differences in digestibility among pollen types may reflect differences in pollen wall porosity, thickness, and composition.

TL;DR: This database compares pollen protein concentration with pollination mode, pollen collection by bees, and distance from stigma to ovule, after accounting for phylogeny through paired phylogenetic comparisons and a nested ANOVA including taxonomic rank.

TL;DR: Overall, bee response to urban habitat fragmentation was best predicted by ecological traits associated with nesting and dietary breadth, had species been treated as individual units in the analyses, or pooled together into one analysis, these response patterns may not have been apparent.