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Projected climate change threatens pollinators and crop production in Brazil
(Public Library of Science, 2017-08-09)
Animal pollination can impact food security since many crops depend on pollinators to produce fruits and seeds. However, the effects of projected climate change on crop pollinators and therefore on crop production are still ...
Global agricultural productivity is threatened by increasing pollinator dependence without a parallel increase in crop diversification
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2019-07-10)
The global increase in the proportion of land cultivated with pollinator-dependent crops implies increased reliance on pollination services. Yet agricultural practices themselves can profoundly affect pollinator supply and ...
Crop pollination management needs flower-visitor monitoring and target values
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2020-04)
Despite the crucial importance of biotic pollination for many crops, land managers rarely monitor the levels of crop pollination needed to guide farming decisions. The few existing pollination recommendations focus on a ...
Pollination efficiency of artificial and bee pollination practices in kiwifruit
(Elsevier Science, 2019-02)
The area cultivated with pollinator-dependent crops is increasing worldwide, while a shortfall in pollinator availability is a growing problem in many agroecosystems. For this reason, many highly pollinator-dependent crops ...
Temporal variation in pollination services to Cucurbita moschata is determined by bee gender and diversity
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2018-11)
It has been proposed that species-rich insect communities and species turnover across landscapes enhance the pollination efficiency of crops through complementarity, where both the dominant and less abundant species ...
Time to integrate pollinator science into soybean production
(Elsevier Science London, 2021-07-01)
Soybeans cover 129 million hectares globally. Soybean productivity can increase with pollinator management, but soybean cultivation practices commonly ignore biotic pollination. If pollinator habitats are created within ...
The costs and benefits of pollinator dependence: empirically based simulations predict raspberry fruit quality
(Ecological Society of America, 2018-07-24)
Globally, agriculture increasingly depends on pollinators to produce many seed and fruit crops. However, what constitutes optimal pollination service for pollinator-dependent crops remains unanswered. We developed a ...
Impacts of honeybee density on crop yield: A meta-analysis
(Wiley Blackwell Publishing, Inc, 2019-02-03)
1. There is increasing recognition that pollination deficits are limiting crop yields world-wide. However, management strategies for optimal insect pollination are still unclear for most crops. Current management focuses ...
Bees increase crop yield in an alleged pollinator-independent almond variety
(Nature Publishing Group, 2020-02)
Wild pollinators are declining and the number of managed honey bee colonies is growing slower than agricultural demands for pollination. Because of these contrasting trends in pollinator demand and availability, breeding ...
Pollination in socio-agroecosystems: Recommendations to preserve the diversity of pollinators
(The Society of Plan Reproductive Biologists, 2020-01)
Pollinators play a crucial role in human well-being, as they contribute to pollination of many crops and influence plant reproduction and biodiversity conservation of native plants. There is a gradual disappearance of major ...