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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Standard methods for artificial rearing of Apis mellifera larvae
Karl Crailsheim,Robert Brodschneider,Pierrick Aupinel,Dieter Behrens,Elke Genersch,Jutta Vollmann,Ulrike Riessberger-Gallé +6 more
TL;DR: This paper will help with this decision and provide guidelines on how to adjust the method of in vitro rearing according to the specific needs of the scientific project.
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Colony Collapse Disorder in context
Geoffrey R. Williams,David R. Tarpy,Dennis vanEngelsdorp,Marie Pierre Chauzat,Diana Cox-Foster,Keith S. Delaplane,Peter J. Neumann,Jeffery S. Pettis,Richard E.L. Rogers,Dave Shutler +9 more
TL;DR: Despite an almost 50% increase in world honey bee stocks over the last century, beekeepers have not kept pace with the >300% increase with pollinator-dependent crops, and has led to great uncertainty surrounding the recent large-scale die-offs.
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Estimating the density of honeybee colonies across their natural range to fill the gap in pollinator decline censuses
Rodolfo Jaffé,Vincent Dietemann,Vincent Dietemann,Mike H. Allsopp,Cecilia Costa,Robin M. Crewe,Raffaele Dall’Olio,Pilar De la Rúa,Mogbel A. A. El-Niweiri,Ingemar Fries,Nikola Kezić,Michael S. Meusel,Robert J. Paxton,T. Shaibi,Eckart Stolle,Robin F. A. Moritz +15 more
TL;DR: Current densities of European honeybee populations are in the same range as those found in the adverse climatic conditions of the Kalahari and Saharan deserts, which suggests that beekeeping activities do not compensate for the loss of wild colonies.
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Do managed bees drive parasite spread and emergence in wild bees
TL;DR: Correlations with the use of managed bees and decreases in wild bee health from territories across the globe are discussed along with suggestions to mitigate further health reductions in wild bees.
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Widespread occurrence of chemical residues in beehive matrices from apiaries located in different landscapes of Western France.
Olivier Lambert,Mélanie Piroux,Mélanie Piroux,Mélanie Piroux,Sophie Puyo,Chantal Thorin,Monique L'Hostis,Laure Wiest,Audrey Buleté,Frédéric Delbac,Frédéric Delbac,Hervé Pouliquen +11 more
TL;DR: Honey bees, honeys and pollens are appropriate sentinels for monitoring pesticide and veterinary drug environmental pollution and the widespread occurrence of multiple residues in beehive matrices suggests a potential issue with the effects of these residues alone or in combination on bee health.
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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
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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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