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Pollination by wild bees yields larger strawberries than pollination by honey bees [PDF]
Journal of Applied Ecology, 2019 Abstract A diverse array of wild bee species may provide more effective pollination than the widely employed European honey bee (Apis mellifera L.). High species richness within crop pollinator assemblages has been linked to enhanced fruit and seed yields, but species richness is often confounded with abundance in studies of pollinator communities ...
Gail MacInnis, Jessica R. K. Forrest
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Nocturnal Bees as Crop Pollinators [PDF]
Agronomy, 2021 Bees are typically diurnal but around 1% of described species have nocturnal activity. Nocturnal bees are still poorly studied due to bias towards studying diurnal insects. However, knowledge concerning their biology and role as crop pollinators has increased. We review the literature on nocturnal bees’ traits and their host plants, and assess the crop
Guaraci D. Cordeiro +13 more
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Frontiers in Plant Science, 2021 Plant reproduction in red clover requires cross-fertilization via insect pollination. However, the influences of visitation rate and timing on maximizing ovule utilization are yet to be determined.
Shuxuan Jing +3 more
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Wild bee toxicity data for pesticide risk assessments [PDF]
, 2019 Pollination services are vital for agriculture, food security and biodiversity. Although many insect species provide pollination services, honeybees are thought to be the major provider of this service to agriculture. However, the importance of wild bees
Lewis, Kathleen, Tzilivakis, John
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Wild bees enhance honey bees’ pollination of hybrid sunflower [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2006 Pollinators are required for producing 15–30% of the human food supply, and farmers rely on managed honey bees throughout the world to provide these services. Yet honey bees are not always the most efficient pollinators of all crops and are declining in various parts of the world. Crop pollination shortages are becoming increasingly common.
Sarah S, Greenleaf, Claire, Kremen
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Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2021 Managed and wild bee populations contribute over $15 billion in pollination services to US agriculture, yet both are declining or becoming increasingly vulnerable to parasites and disease.
Jennie L. Durant +2 more
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International Journal of Horticultural Science, 2000 The duration of effective bee pollination period was limited by caging flowering branches for shorter or longer time in blooming fruit trees in a number of experiments during the past decades.
P. Benedek +10 more
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The macroeconomic cost of catastrophic pollinator declines [PDF]
, 2016 We develop a computable general equilibrium (CGE) approach to assess the macroeconomic impacts of productivity shocks due to catastrophic losses of pollination ecosystem services at global and regional scales.
Bauer, Dana Marie, Sue Wing, Ian
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Bee species diversity enhances productivity and stability in a perennial crop.
PLoS ONE, 2014 Wild bees provide important pollination services to agroecoystems, but the mechanisms which underlie their contribution to ecosystem functioning--and, therefore, their importance in maintaining and enhancing these services-remain unclear.
Shelley R Rogers +2 more
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Thiamethoxam impairs honey bee visual learning, alters decision times, and increases abnormal behaviors. [PDF]
, 2020 Learning is important for honey bee fitness and the pollination services that they provide. Neonicotinoid pesticides impair learning, fitness, colony health, and pollination, but most studies on how they affect bee learning have focused on olfactory ...
Ludicke, Joshua C, Nieh, James C
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