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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 +5 more
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Business Strategy and the Environment, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 336-352, January 2023., 2023 Abstract This paper seeks to understand the process by which biodiversity performance indicators can be developed. In doing so, this paper examines how biodiversity performance measurements are inherently imperfect and reflects on the implications of that imperfectness.
Madlen Sobkowiak
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Plant survival and keystone pollinator species in stochastic coextinction models: role of intrinsic dependence on animal-pollination [PDF]
Scientific Reports 7, 6915 (2017), 2017 Coextinction models are useful to understand community robustness to species loss and resilience to disturbances. We simulated pollinator extinctions in pollination networks by using a hybrid model that combined a recently developed stochastic coextinction model (SCM) for plant extinctions and a topological model (TCM) for animal extinctions. Our model
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Simulation-based Modelling of Growth and Pollination of Greenhouse Strawberry [PDF]
arXiv, 2022 The cultivated strawberry Fragaria ananassa Duch. is widely planted in greenhouses in China. Its production heavily depends on pollination services. Compared with artificial pollination, bee pollination can significantly improve fruit quality and save considerable labor requirement.
arxiv
Robotic Pollination of Apples in Commercial Orchards [PDF]
arXiv, 2023 This research presents a novel, robotic pollination system designed for targeted pollination of apple flowers in modern fruiting wall orchards. Developed in response to the challenges of global colony collapse disorder, climate change, and the need for sustainable alternatives to traditional pollinators, the system utilizes a commercial manipulator, a ...
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The effects of urbanisation on pollinators and pollination: A meta-analysis
Ecology Letters, 2022 Urbanisation is increasing worldwide, with major impacts on biodiversity, species interactions and ecosystem functioning. Pollination is an ecosystem function vital for terrestrial ecosystems and food security, however, the processes underlying the patterns of pollinator diversity and the ecosystem services they provide in cities have seldom been ...
Huan Liang +3 more
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The Indian Journal of Agricultural Sciences, 2014 Due to lack of stable male sterile system in okra [Abelmoschus esculentus (L.) Moench], hybrid seed production is still dependant on hand emasculation and pollination which is troublesome and labour intensive. Five hybridization techniques, viz.
B SINGH, P M SINGH, S K SANWAL, A K PAL
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Robotic Pollinating Tools for Actinidia Crops
Biology and Life Sciences Forum, 2023 Pollination is a crucial reproductive process that underpins crop yield and quality as well as sustains other ecosystem services essential for our planet’s life. Insects are the largest group of pollinators, particularly bees, handling the pollination of
Isabel Pinheiro +3 more
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Competition-induced increase of species abundance in mutualistic networks [PDF]
JSTAT (2019) 033502, 2018 Nutrients from a flowering plant are shared by its pollinators, giving rise to competition in the latter. Such exploitative competition of pollinators can limit their abundance and affect the global organization of the mutualistic partnership in the plant-pollinator mutualistic community.
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Functional diversity of farmland bees across rural–urban landscapes in a tropical megacity
Ecological Applications, Volume 32, Issue 8, December 2022., 2022 Abstract Urbanization poses a major threat to biodiversity and food security, as expanding cities, especially in the Global South, increasingly compete with natural and agricultural lands. However, the impact of urban expansion on agricultural biodiversity in tropical regions is overlooked.
Gabriel Marcacci +8 more
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