The global stock of domesticated honey bees is growing slower than agricultural demand for pollination.
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Although the primary cause of the accelerating increase of the pollinator dependence of commercial agriculture seems to be economic and political and not biological, the rapid expansion of cultivation of many pollinator-dependent crops has the potential to trigger future pollination problems for both these crops and native species in neighboring areas.About:
This article is published in Current Biology.The article was published on 2009-06-09 and is currently open access. It has received 902 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Pollinator decline & Pollination.read more
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The Airflow Field Characteristics of the Unmanned Agricultural Aerial System on Oilseed Rape (Brassica napus) Canopy for Supplementary Pollination
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the distribution law of the three-dimensional (direction x, y, z) airflow field, experiments involving three levels of flight speed (FS) at 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0 m/s, and three level of flight height (FH) at 1.5, 2.5 and 3.5 m were conducted in the oilseed rape (OSR) field by using an electric four-rotor UAV P20.
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Local management and landscape context effects on bee pollination, ant seed predation, and yield in Indonesian homegardens
TL;DR: It is concluded that farmers need to adjust bee management accordingly to reduce major yield gaps and recommend shifting the focus from common management practices towards more sustainable management to enhance pollination services and stress the importance for policy driven regulations of reduced and better targeted pesticide application in tropical agroecosystems.
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Phylogenetic analysis of deformed wing virus, black queen cell virus and acute bee paralysis viruses in Turkish honeybee colonies
TL;DR: DWV has been the most frequently detected bee virus in honey bees and is the subject of a nonPhylogenetic analysis of deformed wing virus, black queen cell virus and acute bee paralysis viruses in Turkish honeybee colonies.
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Understanding Pollinator Habitat Conservation under Current Policy Using Economic Experiments
Chian Jones Ritten,Christopher T. Bastian,Jason F. Shogren,Thadchaigeni Panchalingam,Mariah D. Ehmke,Gregory M. Parkhurst +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the potential conservation decisions under CP-42 and the resulting impact on land use decisions regarding crop production by designing an economic experiment that simulates landowners' decisions to enroll in the program.
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Seasonal dynamics of competition between honey bees and wild bees in a protected Mediterranean scrubland
TL;DR: In this paper , the seasonal dynamics of the competition between honey bees and wild bees through a two-year study of plant-bee networks in a Mediterranean protected area were investigated, showing that the competition for floral resources induced by honey bees is especially strong during the early spring and then decreases along the season for all groups of wild bees.
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Importance of pollinators in changing landscapes for world crops
Alexandra-Maria Klein,Bernard E. Vaissière,James H. Cane,Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter,Saul A. Cunningham,Claire Kremen,Teja Tscharntke +6 more
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.
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Global Transformations: Politics, Economics, and Culture
TL;DR: The Global Transformations (GTL) project as discussed by the authors is the product of almost a decade's work by a research team (based at the Open University and supported by the ESRC) who have produced what James. N. Rosenau has called the definitive work on globalization.
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Global Transformations: Politics, Economics, and Culture
TL;DR: The Global Transformations (GTL) project as mentioned in this paper is the product of almost a decade's work by a research team (based at the Open University and supported by the ESRC) who have produced what James. N. Rosenau has called the definitive work on globalization.
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Parallel Declines in Pollinators and Insect-Pollinated Plants in Britain and the Netherlands
Jacobus C. Biesmeijer,Stuart P. M. Roberts,Menno Reemer,Ralf Ohlemüller,Michael Edwards,T.M.J. Peeters,T.M.J. Peeters,A. P. Schaffers,Simon G. Potts,R.M.J.C. Kleukers,Chris D. Thomas,Josef Settele,William E. Kunin +12 more
TL;DR: Evidence of declines (pre-versus post-1980) in local bee diversity in Britain and the Netherlands is found and a causal connection between local extinctions of functionally linked plant and pollinator species is strongly suggested.
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Economic valuation of the vulnerability of world agriculture confronted with pollinator decline
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assessed the economic consequences of pollinator decline by measuring the contribution of insect pollination to the world agricultural output economic value, and the vulnerability of world agriculture in the face of the decline of pollinators.
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