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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So near and yet so far: harmonic radar reveals reduced homing ability of Nosema infected honeybees.
Stephan Wolf,Stephan Wolf,Dino P. McMahon,Dino P. McMahon,Ka S. Lim,Christopher D. Pull,Christopher D. Pull,Suzanne J. Clark,Robert J. Paxton,Robert J. Paxton,Juliet L. Osborne,Juliet L. Osborne +11 more
TL;DR: Harmonic radar technology is applied to characterize the impact of an emerging pathogen - Nosema ceranae (Microsporidia) - on honeybee flight and orientation performance in the field and suggests that infected bees express normal flight characteristics but are constrained in their homing ability, potentially compromising the colony by reducing its resource inputs but also counteracting the intra-colony spread of infection.
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How to kill the honey bee larva: genomic potential and virulence mechanisms of Paenibacillus larvae.
Marvin Djukic,Elzbieta Brzuszkiewicz,Anne Fünfhaus,Jörn Voss,Kathleen Gollnow,Lena Poppinga,Heiko Liesegang,Eva Garcia-Gonzalez,Elke Genersch,Rolf Daniel +9 more
TL;DR: Comparative genomics of both strains revealed acquisition of virulence factors by horizontal gene transfer and provided insights into evolution and pathogenicity.
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Land use and pollinator dependency drives global patterns of pollen limitation in the Anthropocene.
Joanne M. Bennett,Joanne M. Bennett,Janette A. Steets,Jean H. Burns,Laura A. Burkle,Jana C. Vamosi,Marina Wolowski,Gerardo Arceo-Gómez,Martin Burd,Walter Durka,Allan G. Ellis,Leandro Freitas,Junmin Li,James G. Rodger,James G. Rodger,Valentin Ştefan,Jing Xia,Tiffany M. Knight,Tiffany M. Knight,Tia-Lynn Ashman +19 more
TL;DR: It is found that pollen limitation is high in urban environments and depends of plant traits such as pollinator dependency, and ecologically and functionally specialized plants are at risk of pollen limitation across land use categories.
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Reconstruction of historical pollination rates reveals linked declines of pollinators and plants
Anton Pauw,Julie A. Hawkins +1 more
TL;DR: There has been a contemporaneous shift in orchid guild composition in urban areas due to the local extirpation of the non-clonal species, consistent with their greater dependence on seeds and pollination for population persistence.
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TL;DR: Heterogeneous wireless sensor networks are utilised to collect data on a range of parameters from a beehive with the aim of accurately describing the internal conditions and colony activity and an algorithm for predicting short term rain based on the parameters within the hive is developed.
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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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