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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Modelling honey bee queen mating as a measure of feral colony density
TL;DR: An agent-based model of the spatial process of honey bee mating is presented that describes the relationship between feral colony densities and the number of unique colonies with which a queen mates and concludes that the new genetic methods provide a powerful tool for making indirect inferences about feral colonies densities.
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The role of pollinators, pests and different yield components for organic and conventional white clover seed yields
Ola Lundin,Glenn P. Svensson,Mattias C. Larsson,Göran Birgersson,Veronica Hederström,Åsa Lankinen,Olle Anderbrant,Maj Rundlöf,Maj Rundlöf +8 more
TL;DR: Results indicate that pollinator densities are not limiting yields in either conventional or organic white clover seed production, whereas P. fulvipes crop damage is an important factor limiting organic yields via negative effects on seed set.
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Entomology in the 21st Century: Tackling Insect Invasions, Promoting Advancements in Technology, and Using Effective Science Communication-2018 Student Debates.
Casey Parker,Lina Bernaola,Benjamin W Lee,Dane Elmquist,Abigail L Cohen,Adrian Marshall,James Hepler,Adrian Pekarcik,Emily J. Justus,Kendall King,Tae-Young Lee,Carlos J. Esquivel,Kayleigh C. Hauri,Christopher McCullough,Whitney T Hadden,Max Ragozzino,Morgan A. Roth,James M. Villegas,Emily C. Kraus,Michael Becker,Megan Mulcahy,Rui Chen,Priyanka Mittapelly,C Scott Clem,Rachel K. Skinner,Tanya Josek,Daniel J. Pearlstein,Jonathan R. Tetlie,Anh K. Tran,Anthony Auletta,Edwin Benkert,Dylan A Tussey +31 more
TL;DR: This year’s student debates of the Entomological Society of America discussed and debated topics under the theme ‘Entomology in the 21st Century: Tackling Insect Invasions, Promoting Advancements in Technology, and Using Effective Science Communication’.
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Managed bumble bees increase flower visitation but not fruit weight in polytunnel strawberry crops
TL;DR: The results suggest that the pollination services producing high quality strawberry fruits are provided by the flower visitor community present in the study region without the need to use managed bumble bees.
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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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