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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Caste- and pesticide-specific effects of neonicotinoid pesticide exposure on gene expression in bumblebees.
Thomas J. Colgan,Thomas J. Colgan,Isabel K. Fletcher,Andres N. Arce,Richard J. Gill,Ana Ramos Rodrigues,Eckart Stolle,Lars Chittka,Yannick Wurm +8 more
TL;DR: This work demonstrates how RNA‐Seq transcriptome profiling can provide detailed novel insight on the mechanisms mediating pesticide toxicity to a key insect pollinator.
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The habitat disruption induces immune‐suppression and oxidative stress in honey bees
Tomomi Morimoto,Yuriko Kojima,Taku Toki,Yayoi Komeda,Mikio Yoshiyama,Kiyoshi Kimura,Keijiro Nirasawa,Tatsuhiko Kadowaki +7 more
TL;DR: It is found that the greenhouse environment changes the gene expression profiles and induces immune-suppression and oxidative stress in honey bees, and honey bee colonies are likely to collapse during pollination in greenhouses when heavily infested with pathogens.
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Production of the catechol type siderophore bacillibactin by the honey bee pathogen Paenibacillus larvae
Gillian Hertlein,Sebastian Alexander Müller,Eva Garcia-Gonzalez,Lena Poppinga,Roderich D. Süssmuth,Elke Genersch +5 more
TL;DR: Detailed analysis of a giant gene clusters coding for non-ribosomal peptide synthetases which were demonstrated to be responsible for the biosynthesis of bacillibactin are presented and Mass spectrometric analysis unambiguously confirmed that the siderophore produced by P. larvae is identical to bacllibactsin.
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As abelhas, os serviços ecossistêmicos e o Código Florestal Brasileiro
TL;DR: A conservacao das florestas e necessaria para a manutencao d as populacoes de abelhas e da polinizacao nas paisagens agricolas.
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Insect pollinator conservation policy innovations at subnational levels: Lessons for lawmakers
Damon M. Hall,Rebecca Steiner +1 more
TL;DR: In the absence of sweeping international agreements targeting pollinator declines, national and sub-national governments are actively deploying policies to address the pollinator health crisis as discussed by the authors. But despite scientific calls and public outcry to develop policy that addresses declines, multi-state agreements have not delivered such legislation nor met basic monitoring needs recommended by experts.
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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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