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Marketing Tips for Small-scale, Local Honey Bee Keepers in Northwest Arkansas [PDF]

, 2017
The objective of this thesis was to gain market information for beekeepers regarding different honey bee products and to provide information about economic feasibility when produced on a small, local scale.
Goll, Samuel L., Popp, Jennie S., Popp, Michael P., Steinkraus, Donald C.   +3 more
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Understanding smallholder decision‐making to increase farm tree diversity: Enablers and barriers for forest landscape restoration in Western Kenya

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Integrating diverse trees and shrubs (hereafter ‘trees’) in agricultural landscapes has emerged as a crucial nature‐based solution to the triple challenge of biodiversity loss, climate change and food security. The potential benefits of on‐farm trees for both people and nature, however, are often constrained by inadequate consideration of ...
Ennia Bosshard, Harrison Carter, Lillian Aluso, Reuben Chumba, Christopher N. Kaiser‐Bunbury, Chris J. Kettle, Ana Nuno   +6 more
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Pollination biology of large cardamom (Amomum subulatum) [PDF]

, 2007
Amomum subulatum Roxb. (family Zingiberaceae) is the large cardamom of commerce cultivated in tropical wet evergreen forests of the Eastern Himalayas of India, Nepal and Bhutan.
Palatty , Allesh Sinu, Shivanna, KR
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Self-pollination by sliding pollen in Caulokaempferia coenobialis (Zingiberaceae) [PDF]

, 2005
Caulokaempferia coenobialis (Zingiberaceae) forms dense populations on steep cliffs in shady, humid monsoon forests in south China. It produces few consecutively opening bright yellow flowers that are 3 cm long and oriented parallel to the ground.
Chen, Zhongyi, Renner, Susanne S., Wang, Yingqiang, Zhang, Dianxiang   +3 more
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Omics Insights Into the Effects of Highbush Blueberry and Cranberry Crop Agroecosystems on Honey Bee Health and Physiology

PROTEOMICS, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are vital pollinators in fruit‐producing agroecosystems like highbush blueberry (HBB) and cranberry (CRA). However, their health is threatened by multiple interacting stressors, including pesticides, pathogens, and nutritional changes.
Huan Zhong, Yuming Shi, Aleksandra Kozlova, Renata Moravcova, Jason C. Rogalski, Aidan Jamieson, Lance Lansing, Kyung‐Mee Moon, Xiaojing Yuan, Amanda S. Gregoris, Heather Higo, Julia Common, Ida M. Conflitti, Mateus Pepinelli, Lan Tran, Morgan Cunningham, Hosna Jabbari, Syed Abbas Bukhari, Sarah K. French, Rodrigo Ortega Polo, Shelley E. Hoover, Stephen F. Pernal, Pierre Giovenazzo, M. Marta Guarna, Amro Zayed, Leonard J. Foster   +25 more
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A nesting aggregation of the solitary bee Megachile atrata (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in the Philippines [PDF]

, 2017
A nesting aggregation of Megachile (Creightonella) atrata Smith in the Philippines comprised almost 300 active nests.  The bees in rapid flight resemble the hornet Vespa tropica Linnaeus. The nest structure is similar to that reported for M.
Starr, Christopher K.
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Flowering out of sync: Climate change alters the reproductive phenology of Terminalia paniculata in the Western Ghats of India

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Understanding how climate change impacts the plant life cycle is critical for maintaining biodiversity and ecosystem services. Our findings suggest that Terminalia paniculata Roth, a common tropical deciduous tree species in the Western Ghats, is now flowering and fruiting at more scattered times than it used to in the past.
Ananthapadmanaban Karthikeyan, Venkatraman Karthik, Sivagnanam Chandrasekaran   +2 more
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Assessment of stingless bee densification to improve pollination service: a case study in strawberry cultivation in field conditions

Journal of Ecology and Environment
Background: Pollination is an ecosystem service of utmost importance for agriculture. In this context, the study aimed to evaluate the pollination service of naturally occurring bees and after densification with colonies of stingless bees (Nannotrigona ...
Priscila Silva Miranda, Zilda Cristina Malheiros Lima, Raquel Pérez-Maluf, Paulo Henrique Marques Monroe, Aldenise Alves Moreira   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Pollinators In Peril: A Systematic Status Review of North American and Hawaiian Native Bees [PDF]

, 2017
While the decline of European honeybees in the United States and beyond has been well publicized in recent years, the more than 4,000 species of native bees in North America and Hawaii have been much less documented. Although these native bees are not as
Kelsey Kopec, Lori Ann Burd
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Enhancing Seed Production of Three Brassica vegetables by Honey Bee Pollination in North-western Himalayas of India

, 2013
The impact of planned honeybee pollination on the seed production of three Brassica vegetables, Brassica oleacea var. italica, B. rapa pekinensis and B. oleracea var.
S. N. Sushil, J. Stanley, N. K. Hedau, J. Bhatt   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source