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:
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Final report on relationships between biodiversity, ecosystem services and values in case studies: PART I: Literature review of the relationships between biodiversity, ecosystem services and values
Paula A. Harrison,Mette Termansen,Pam Berry,Malgorzata Blicharska,U. Brandweiner,M. Bucur,Robert Dunford,Benis N. Egoh,Nicoleta Geamana,W. Geertsema,John R. Haslett,H. Lindhjelm,Els Lommelen,L. Martinsen,Laurence Mathieu,Linda Meiresonne,F. Moller,C. Polce,P. Rajapakshe,J. Smart,Gillian Simpson,Rob Tinch,Francis Turkelboom +22 more
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Real-time monitoring of deformed wing virus-infected bee foraging behavior following histone deacetylase inhibitor treatment.
Cheng-Kang Tang,Yu-Hsien Lin,Joe-Air Jiang,Joe-Air Jiang,Yun-Heng Lu,Chih-Hsuan Tsai,Yu Chun Lin,Yun-Ru Chen,Carol-P Wu,Yueh-Lung Wu +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors found that sodium butyrate (NaB) significantly increased survival and reversed the learning/memory impairment of deformed wing virus (DWV)-infected bees.
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Special Issue: Honey Bee Pathogens and Parasites
TL;DR: Honey bees are important pollinators of agricultural crops and despite the reports about elevated local colony losses over the last few decades [...] as discussed by the authors , there has been no significant increase in colony losses.
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Marketing Approach in Role and Importance of Pollinators in Gardens: A Preliminary Study
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the situation of pollinators, including honey bees in gardens and close surrounding of selected regions in Slovakia and Poland, and found that the majority of respondents regularly observe pollinators in their gardens where the most frequent pollinators are bees and bumblebees.
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The Impact of the Honeybee Apis mellifera on the Organization of Pollination Networks Is Positively Related with Its Interactive Role throughout Its Geographic Range
Wesley Dáttilo,Carlos Pinilla Cruz,Pedro Luna,Brenda Ratoni,Ismael A. Hinojosa-Díaz,Frederico de Siqueira Neves,Maurice Leponce,Fabricio Villalobos,Roger Guevara +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper , the authors evaluated how the interactive role of Apis mellifera L. could affect niche overlap, specialization, and robustness of pollination networks and developed a new standardized framework based on species removal to assess the impact of the honeybee on plant-pollinator networks.
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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
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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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