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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American foulbrood in a honeybee colony: spore-symptom relationship and feedbacks between disease and colony development
TL;DR: Bayesian models developed establish a direct link between disease prevalence and social group size for a eusocial insect, and provide a probabilistic description of the relationship between AFB spore counts and symptoms, and how disease development and colony strength over a season modulate this relationship.
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Local Actions to Tackle a Global Problem: A Multidimensional Assessment of the Pollination Crisis in Chile
Lorena Vieli,Maureen Murúa,Luis Flores-Prado,Gastón O. Carvallo,Carlos E. Valdivia,Giselle Muschett,Manuel López-Aliste,Constanza Andía,Christian Jofré-Pérez,Francisco E. Fontúrbel +9 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors discussed the drivers responsible for the decline of pollinators (including habitat loss, pesticides, invasive species, and climate change) and its synergistic effects and identified information gaps to be filled and key threats to be addressed to reconcile crop production and biodiversity conservation.
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An Examination of Exposure Routes of Fluvalinate to Larval and Adult Honey Bees (Apis mellifera)
TL;DR: Investigation of the extent of fluvalinate contamination in commercially available wax and exposure pathways to larval and adult honey bees found that transfer of fluValinate from wax into adult bees was an important exposure route, suggesting that exposure offluvalinate from contaminated wax and treatment strips to honey bees needs to be considered when the risk for colony loss in hives is being evaluated.
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Characterization of C3larvinA, a novel RhoA-targeting ADP-ribosyltransferase toxin produced by the honey bee pathogen, Paenibacillus larvae
Madison Turner,Olivier Tremblay,Kayla A. Heney,Miguel R. Lugo,Julia Ebeling,Elke Genersch,A. Rod Merrill +6 more
TL;DR: C3larvinA caused a growth-defective phenotype indicating that it is an active C3-like toxin and is cytotoxic to eukaryotic cells, and a homology consensus model of C3larvA with NAD+ substrate was built on the structure of Plx2A, provided additional confirmation that C3lvinA is a member of the C4-like mono-ADP-ribosylating toxin subgroup.
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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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