Crop Pollination
Maximising a mutualism: sustainable bumblebee management to improve crop pollination
... the crop in comparison to commercial ...the pollination of nearby crops, however the area planted with seed in their study was greater than the 6m by 50m strips detailed in Chapter ...
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Non-bee insects are important contributors to global crop pollination
... to crop production and stability in the face of environmental ...the crop pollination services provided by non- bees, honey bees and other bees, in order to compare the relative contributions of ...
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NATIVE BEES, NATIVE PLANTS, AND CROP POLLINATION IN CALIFORNIA
... crop pollination services that bees provide. In Yolo, Solano, and Napa counties, certain areas are already protected to some degree, includ- ing, for example, the Cache Creek Nature Preserve, Jepson ...
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CLIMATE CHANGE AND CROP POLLINATION
... Bees are the most important pollinators worldwide (Kearns et al. 1998) and like other insects, they are ectothermic, requiring elevated body temperatures for flying. The thermal properties of their environments determine ...
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Are there risks to wild European bumble bees from using commercial stocks of domesticated Bombus terrestris for crop pollination?
... Are there risks to wild European bumble bees from using commercial?. stocks of domesticated Bombus terrestris for crop pollination4[r] ...
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Cucurbits as a model system for crop pollination management
... for pollination studies. This review systematically summarises pollination research conducted in the major food genera of cucurbits: Cucurbita, Cucumis, and Citrullus, to ask: 1) what are cucurbits’ ...
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Toward an integrated approach to crop production and pollination ecology through the application of remote sensing
... in crop pollination ...experts, crop production and pollination researchers as well as growers and industry stakeholders would enable greater transfer of knowledge among disciplines and ...
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Pollination review
... Broedsgaard, 1992). Although the foraging strategies of pollinators are complex, it was proposed that pollinators, particularly honey bees follow nearest neighbour pollination rule (Levin and Kerster, 1974; ...
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Challenges in cocoa pollination : the case of Côte d’Ivoire
... [1] Rader R, Bartomeus I, Garibaldi LA, Garratt MPD, Howlett BG, Winfree R, Cunningham SA, Mayfield MM, Arthur AD, Andersson GKS, Bommarco R, Brittain C, Carvalheiro LG, Chacoff NP, Entling MH, Foully B, Freitas BM, ...
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No Farm Is An Island: Pollinators And Pollination In Agricultural Landscapes
... Agricultural systems vary widely in their ability to support biodiversity (Karp et al., 2012; Kremen & Miles, 2012) and previous work has indicated that farmland conservation may benefit only a subset of total ...
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Linking Land Cover Data and Crop Yields for Mapping and Assessment of Pollination Services in Europe
... Crop pollination by wild insects is an important ecosystem service with high economic ...Insect pollination is necessary for 75% of global crops that are used as human food [2] and the cultivation of ...
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Flower plantings increase wild bee abundance and the pollination services provided to a pollination-dependent crop
... for pollination can benefit from the proximity of floral resources at the field scale and from greater resources for bees at landscape ...improved crop pollination (Kremen, Williams & Thorp 2002; ...
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Using Flower Pollination Algorithm for Segmentation with Threesholding
... flower pollination algorithm (FPA) is one of heuristic and bio- inspired algorithms that deals with continuous and combinatorial optimization problems and it can use for image segmentation of the image ...
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Pollination deficits in UK apple orchards
... hand pollination treatment, one was to remain pollinated by the natural insect community and the remaining branch was to have insect pollinators excluded ...
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Thrips Pollination in the Lowland Forest of New Zealand
... Thomson (1881) says thrips may be found in flowers but to consider them pollinators is "erroneous" because they "would only bring about self-fertilization". Unlike honeybees and some butterflies, thrips ...
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Do sown flower strips boost wild pollinator abundance and pollination services in a spring flowering crop?:a case study from UK cider apple orchards
... In summary, flower strips increased wild insect abundance during crop bloom in cider.. apple orchards, particularly in areas close to bordering semi-natural habitats, and.[r] ...
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Pollen analyses for pollination research, acetolysis
... A species of Banksia (Proteaceae) is pollinated by native rats (Carpenter 1978). A lizard has been observed visiting and drinking the nectar of Aloë (Elvers 1977) indicating the importance of reptilian pollinators in the ...
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Pollination of Habenaria tridactylites on the Canary Islands
... We investigated the pollination of Habenaria tridactylites, an endemic orchid of the Canary Islands. The entirely green, widely open flowers have a long spur containing nectar. We carried out fieldwork, a ...
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Pollination Ecology of Highbush Blueberry Agroecosystems.
... rabbiteye blueberry (V. ashei) are grown on > 2000 ha of land, with highbush blueberry accounting for the majority of commercial production (NCDA CS 2011). Blueberry flowers consist of a fused, narrow corolla with a ...
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Pollination of invasive Rhododendron ponticum (Ericaceae) in Ireland
... In order to determine which insects might facilitate pollination, 136 insects (117 Bombus spp., 5 Andrena spp., 10 Vespula vulgaris, 1 Seriocomyia silentis, 1 Eristalis tenax, 1 Palomena spp., 1 unidentified ...
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