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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Geometric morphometrics of the wing as a tool for assigning genetic lineages and geographic origin to Melipona beecheii (Hymenoptera: Meliponini)
Tiago Maurício Francoy,Marina Lopes Grassi,Vera Lúcia Imperatriz-Fonseca,William de Jesús May-Itzá,José Javier G. Quezada-Euán +4 more
TL;DR: It is proposed that geometric morphometrics of the wing could be used as a first step analysis leaving the more expensive molecular analysis only to doubtful cases.
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Managed honey bees as a radar for wild bee decline
Thomas J. Wood,Denis Michez,Robert J. Paxton,Maxime Drossart,Peter J. Neumann,Maxence Gérard,Maryse Vanderplanck,Alexandre Barraud,Baptiste Martinet,Nicolas Leclercq,Nicolas J. Vereecken +10 more
TL;DR: A direct comparison of the response of wild bees and honey bees to the same threats shows that, whilst some of their responses may be similar at the individual level, when considered at the reproductive level, many of theirResponses diverge.
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Trends in beekeeping and honey bee colony losses in Latin America
Fabrice Requier,Karina Antúnez,Carolina L. Morales,Patricia Aldea Sánchez,Dayson Castilhos,Paula Melisa Garrido,Agostina Giacobino,Francisco José Reynaldi,Juan Manuel Rosso Londoño,Estela Santos,Lucas Alejandro Garibaldi +10 more
TL;DR: Using the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) dataset and a synthesis of unpublished data of colony losses survey carried out over the last 7 years, a worrying situation of the beekeeping in this region is revealed.
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Large Carpenter Bees as Agricultural Pollinators
TL;DR: Large carpenter bees (genus Xylocopa) are wood-nesting generalist pollinators of broad geographical distribution that exhibit varying levels of sociality, which make them attractive candidates for agricultural pollination in hot climates, particularly in greenhouses, and of night-blooming crops.
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Landscape genetics of a tropical rescue pollinator
Rodolfo Jaffé,Antonio R. Castilla,Nathaniel S. Pope,Vera Lúcia Imperatriz-Fonseca,Jean Paul Metzger,Maria Cristina Arias,Shalene Jha +6 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that T. spinipes can persist in heavily-altered landscapes and can be regarded as a rescue pollinator, potentially compensating for the decline of other native pollinators in degraded tropical landscapes.
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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
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