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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Spore load and immune response of honey bees naturally infected by Nosema ceranae.
TL;DR: The studies showed that the Nosema spore load and infection prevalence varied among the different types of adult workers, and both of them increased as honey bees aged, and the information gained will be relevant to the predictive modeling of honey bee disease dynamics for Nosema disease prevention and management.
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Aspects determining the risk of pesticides to wild bees: risk profiles for focal crops on three continents
I. Koomen,H. van der Valk,Roberta Cornélio Ferreira Nocelli,M.F. de Ribeiro,Breno Magalhães Freitas +4 more
TL;DR: In this article, the toxicity of the pesticide, the probability of bee exposure to that pesticide, and the population dynamics of the bee species in question were collected in several crops in Brazil, Kenya and The Netherlands.
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Advances in the timing of spring cleaning by the honeybee Apis mellifera in Poland.
Tim H. Sparks,Aleksandra Langowska,Adam Głazaczow,Zdzisław Wilkaniec,Małgorzata Bieńkowska,Piotr Tryjanowski +5 more
TL;DR: The honeybee Apis mellifera is of huge worldwide economic importance in the pollination of crops for human consumption and climate change is increasingly being viewed as an additional threat to honeybees.
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b+WSN: Smart beehive for agriculture, environmental, and honey bee health monitoring — Preliminary results and analysis
TL;DR: The work described in this paper utilised heterogeneous wireless sensor networks technologies to gather data unobtrusively from a beehive, describing the conditions and activity of the honey bee colony, leading to the development of an algorithm for automatically determining the status of the bee colony.
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Landscape analysis of drone congregation areas of the honey bee, Apis mellifera
Alberto Galindo-Cardona,A. Carolina Monmany,Rafiné Moreno-Jackson,Carlos J. Rivera-Rivera,Carlos Huertas-Dones,Laura Caicedo-Quiroga,Tugrul Giray +6 more
TL;DR: Using previously described landscape characteristics and observations on flight direction of drones in nearby apiaries, 36 candidate locations were chosen across the main island of Puerto Rico. At these locations, the presence or absence of DCAs was tested by lifting a helium balloon equipped with queen-sex-pheromone-impregnated bait, and visually determining the presence of high numbers of drones as discussed by the authors.
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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 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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