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Buzz pollination [PDF]

Current Biology, 2020
Pritchard and Vallejo-Marín introduce the process and evolution of buzz pollination.
Pritchard, David J, Vallejo-Marín, Mario   +1 more
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Flower pollination algorithm with pollinator attraction [PDF]

Evolutionary Intelligence, 2022
The Flower Pollination Algorithm (FPA) is a highly efficient optimization algorithm that is inspired by the evolution process of flowering plants. In the present study, a modified version of FPA is proposed accounting for an additional feature of flower pollination in nature that is the so-called pollinator attraction.
Mergos, P. E., Yang, X-S.
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Factors Affecting Pollinators and Pollination [PDF]

Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 2012
While it has been known for at least a decade that the colony numbers of the managed pollinator, the Western honey bee Apis mellifera, was on the decline, pollinator problemwas not well publicized until the Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) further ravaged the honey bee population in the United States [1].
Zachary Y. Huang, Tugrul Giray
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Pollination Services of Mango Flower Pollinators [PDF]

Journal of Insect Science, 2015
Measuring wild pollinator services in agricultural production is very important in the context of sustainable management. In this study, we estimated the contribution of native pollinators to mango fruit set production of two mango cultivars Mangifera indica (L). cv. 'Sala' and 'Chok Anan'. Visitation rates of pollinators on mango flowers and number of
Abdul Rahim Hamdan, M N Abdul Razak, A Nurul Huda, M. R. Che Salmah, A. Abu Hassan   +4 more
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Pollination strategies in the face of pollinator decline [PDF]

Botany Letters, 2021
The recent pollinator decline in developed countries has been documented in many parts of the world and its anthropogenic causes are now identified.
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Developing European conservation and mitigation tools for pollination services: approaches of the STEP (Status and Trends of European Pollinators) project [PDF]

, 2011
Pollinating insects form a key component of European biodiversity, and provide a vital ecosystem service to crops and wild plants. There is growing evidence of declines in both wild and domesticated pollinators, and parallel declines in plants relying ...
Alexandra-Maria Klein, Ante Vujić, Antonio Felicioli, Bernard E Vaissière, David Kleijn, DICKS L V, EU COMMUNICATION, EU COMMUNICATION, FREEMAN S, Henrik G Smith, Ingolf Steffan-Dewenter, Jacobus C Biesmeijer, Josef Settele, KLOTZ S, LILLELEHT V, Lyubomir D Penev, MACCAGNANI B, Markus Fischer, Martin Zobel, MATSUMURA C, Michal Woyciechowski, Montserrat Vilà, NATURAL RESEARCH COUNCIL, Oliver Schweiger, Pekka Jokinen, Peter B Sørensen, Peter Neumann, Pierre Rasmont, RASMONT P, Riccardo Bommarco, Simon G Potts, SPEIGHT M C D, Stuart P M Roberts, Theodora Petanidou, William E Kunin, WILLIAMS I H   +35 more
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Pollination services in the UK: how important are honeybees? [PDF]

, 2011
Pollination services are known to provide substantial benefits to human populations and agriculture in particular. Although many species are known to provide pollination services, honeybees (Apis mellifera) are often assumed to provide the majority of ...
Bailey, Alison P., Balcombe, Kelvin G., Breeze, Tom D, Potts, Simon G.   +3 more
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Using citizen science to monitor pollination services [PDF]

, 2015
1. Pollination by insects is a vital ecosystem service and the need for its assessment is increasing in recognition and political pressure, but there are currently no large-scale systematic monitoring schemes in place to measure the direct provision of ...
Ahrné, Bateman, Costanza, Cussans, Dickinson, Dicks, Dougherty, Drayner, Free, Free, Gallai, Garratt, Ghazoul, Goulson, Goulson, Haines-Young, Hanna, Jauker, Kendall, Klein, Kremen, Kremen, Mackechnie, Oberhauser, Osborne, Owen, Potter, Samnegård, Schmeller, Silvertown, Smith, Steffan-Dewenter, Westphal, WHO, Winfree   +34 more
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Review: Pollination, Pollinated and Pollinators Interaction in Pakistan

Journal of Bioresource Management, 2014
The agriculture sector is important in the overall economy and export earnings of Pakistan. Pollination is an essential ecosystem service that depends on symbiosis between species, the pollinated and the pollinator. Animal mediated pollination contributes to the sexual production of over 90% species of modern angiosperms.
Irshad, Mohammad, Stephen, Elizabeth
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Hairiness: the missing link between pollinators and pollination [PDF]

PeerJ, 2016
BackgroundFunctional traits are the primary biotic component driving organism influence on ecosystem functions; in consequence, traits are widely used in ecological research. However, most animal trait-based studies use easy-to-measure characteristics of species that are at best only weakly associated with functions.
Stavert, Jamie R, Liñán-Cembrano, Gustavo, Beggs, Jacqueline R, Howlett, Brad G, Pattemore, David E, Bartomeus, Ignasi   +5 more
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