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Pollen foraging preferences in honey bees and the nutrient profiles of the pollen

Scientific Reports
Honey bees are important insect pollinators that provide critical pollination services to fruit and nut crops in the US. They face challenges likely due to pressures associated with agricultural intensification related habitat loss.
Seiji C. Yokota, Corey Broeckling, Arathi H.S. (Seshadri)   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Nature at Risk, Finance at Stake: A Systematic Literature Review of Biodiversity Risk in Finance Research

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biodiversity‐related financial risk is increasingly recognized not only as a market concern but as an ethical and systemic imperative for businesses and financial institutions. This systematic literature review synthesizes 103 peer‐reviewed studies to examine how biodiversity risk is conceptualized, measured, and integrated within financial ...
Thang Ngoc Dang, Monomita Nandy, Suman Lodh, Khaled Hussainey   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pollen Release Dynamics and Daily Patterns of Pollen-Collecting Activity of Honeybee Apis mellifera and Bumblebee Bombus lantschouensis in Solar Greenhouse

Insects, 2019
Pollen is important not only for pollination and fertilization of plants, but also for colony development of bee pollinators. Anther dehiscence determines the available pollen that can be collected by foragers.
Hong Zhang, Zhiyong Zhou, Jiandong An
doaj   +1 more source

Guidelines for Scale Development and Validation

Journal of Consumer Behaviour, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scales, serving as measurement instruments composed of carefully designed items intended to capture latent constructs, play a critical role in advancing consumer theory and marketing practice. Yet, developing and validating scales poses a formidable challenge due to the diverse methods required to ensure rigor and robustness.
Weng Marc Lim, Puja Khatri, Atul Shiva, Vidushi Dabas   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bombus terrestris Prefer Mixed-Pollen Diets for a Better Colony Performance: A Laboratory Study

Insects
Pollen is a major source of proteins and lipids for bumblebees. The nutritional content of pollen may differ from source plants, ultimately affecting colony development.
Ziyu Zhou, Hong Zhang, Shibonage K. Mashilingi, Chunting Jie, Baodi Guo, Yi Guo, Xiao Hu, Shahid Iqbal, Bingshuai Wei, Yanjie Liu, Jiandong An   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

PEK14: A Kinesin‐4 Necessary for Male‐Derived Fertility in Arabidopsis thaliana

Cytoskeleton, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Of the 61 kinesins annotated in Arabidopsis thaliana, many are still without assigned function. Here, we have screened an insertional mutant library of Arabidopsis pollen‐expressed kinesins for fertility defects. Insertional mutants for three kinesins showed a significant reduction in seed set.
Isabella N. Mendes, Norman R. Groves, Jessica Z. Li, Lily N. Thompson, Brian J. Smith, Aman Y. Husbands, Iris Meier   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Biodiversity through the Lens of Knautia arvensis Pollinators: Knautia Pollinator Walks as a Monitoring Method

Insects
Declining populations of native pollinators, especially wild bees, underline the urgent need for effective monitoring within agricultural ecosystems. This study aims to (i) establish the ‘Knautia Pollinator Walk’ as an innovative pollinator monitoring ...
Markus Franzén, Magnus Stenmark
doaj   +1 more source

The scaling of seed‐dispersal specialization in interaction networks across levels of organization

Ecography, EarlyView.
Natural ecosystems are characterized by a specialization pattern where few species are common while many others are rare. In ecological networks involving biotic interactions, specialization operates as a continuum at individual, species, and community levels. Theory predicts that ecological and evolutionary factors can primarily explain specialization.
Gabriel M. Moulatlet, Pedro Luna, Wesley Dáttilo, Fabricio Villalobos   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Summer Annual Forage Mixtures Trial [PDF]

, 2016
In 2016, the University of Vermont Extension Northwest Crops and Soils Program evaluated yield and quality of six summer annual forage species and five mixtures at Borderview Research Farm in Alburgh, VT.
Brigham, Nate, Cubins, Julija, Darby, Heather, Ziegler, Sara   +3 more
core   +1 more source

The Role of European Union (EU) Metagovernance in Supporting the Voluntary and Community Sector in Northern Ireland

European Policy Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that European Union (EU) peacebuilding scholarship can benefit from organizational research on the socio‐spatial dynamics of policy implementation. It introduces a strategic‐relational heuristic to address two key gaps: the marginalization of grassroots agency in spatial analyses and the separation of strategy from ...
Giada Lagana, Sioned Pearce
wiley   +1 more source