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Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance
Science, 2013 Honeybees Can't Do It Alone The majority of food crops require pollination to set fruit with the honeybee providing a pollination workhorse, with both feral and managed populations an integral component of crop management (see the Perspective by ...
Lucas A. Garibaldi +49 more
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Biology, 2021 The flowers of plants of the genus Ludwigia are an important source of food for several species of bees. In the current study, we conducted an experiment with the aim to describe the reproductive biology and phenology of L.
Eliana Aparecida Ferreira +3 more
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The effects of urbanization on pollinators and pollination: A meta-analysis.
Ecology Letters, 2023 Urbanization 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 ...
Huan Liang +3 more
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Sociobiology, 2022 We describe here nesting biology of Hoplonomia westwoodi, a common ground nesting solitary bee in India. A typical nest consisted of a straight main tunnel with the cells arranged horizontally at the end. Number of cells per nest ranged from 2 to 4 (x̄ =
K T Vijayakumar +2 more
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Oilseed Rape Shares Abundant and Generalized Pollinators with Its Co-Flowering Plant Species
Insects, 2021 Mass-flowering crops, such as Oilseed Rape (OSR), provide resources for pollinators and benefit from pollination services. Studies that observe the community of interactions between plants and pollinators are critical to understanding the resource needs ...
Amibeth Thompson +2 more
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Ecologies, 2023 Impact of pollination on the agri-food sector is of paramount importance. Pollinators contribute to the maintenance of ecosystems, the reproduction and survival of many plants, and their presence usually leads to increased yield and quality of ...
Efstathia Lazaridi +3 more
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Climate warming changes synchrony of plants and pollinators
bioRxiv, 2021 Climate warming changes the phenology of many species. When interacting organisms respond differently, climate change may disrupt their interactions and affect the stability of ecosystems. Here, we used GBIF occurrence records to examine phenology trends
Jonas Freimuth +3 more
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Insects, 2020 The innate immunity is the most important defense against pathogen of insects, and the peptidoglycan recognition proteins (PGRPs) play an important role in the processes of immune recognition and initiation of Toll, IMD and other signal pathways.
Hong-Xia Hou +5 more
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Crop production in the USA is frequently limited by a lack of pollinators
Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 2020 Most of the world's crops depend on pollinators, so declines in both managed and wild bees raise concerns about food security. However, the degree to which insect pollination is actually limiting current crop production is poorly understood, as is the ...
J. Reilly +30 more
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Expanding insect pollinators in the Anthropocene
Biological Reviews of The Cambridge Philosophical Society, 2021 Global changes are severely affecting pollinator insect communities worldwide, resulting in repeated patterns of species extirpations and extinctions.
G. Ghisbain +4 more
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