pollination services
Priorities for Research and Development in the Management of Pollination Services for Agricultural Development in Africa
... crop pollination services. Pollination services also contribute to other aspects of crop ...and pollination researchers in Kenya demonstrated differences in their crop yields depending ...
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Pollinators and pollination networks in Irish farmland: implications for conservation of pollination services Lessons Learned and Future Prospects
... Agricultural intensification and specialisation has been implicated in the loss of habitat and floral resources, resulting in the considerable decline in hymenopteran pollinators over the last sixty years (Goulson et ...
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The provision of pollination services to agroecosystems by a diverse assemblage of wild, unmanaged insect taxa
... the pollination services provided: per visit pollen deposition, the probability of stigmatic contact, visitation rate, and capacity to transport pollen over ...stable pollination services to a ...
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The provision of pollination services to agroecosystems by a diverse assemblage of wild, unmanaged insect taxa
... pollinator abundance and species richness in some pollinator communities (Kremen et al., 2002; Thomas et al., 2004; Ockinger and Smith, 2006). For example, the diversity and abundance of social bee pollinators is ...
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Measuring the economic value of pollination services : principles, evidence and knowledge gaps
... of pollination services have been purely illustrative and used to raise awareness of the impact of pollination services on regional or national agriculture ...insect pollination with ...
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Pollination Science and Stewardship Symposium
... Many species of true flies (Diptera), especially flower flies (Syrphidae), are significant wild pollinators. Diptera contribute approximately half of the pollination services in most environments and become ...
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Pollination ecology in the 21st century: Key Questions for future research
... in pollination services (IRGC 2009), pointing out risks related to the loss of pollination services, regulatory and governance shortcomings and knowledge ...Global Pollination Project ...
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Articles
... The premise of the paper is that without DPIRD’s activities the population of wasps and their colonies are likely to grow rapidly. Mild winter temperatures and the sandy soil of the Swan Coastal Plain on which Perth is ...
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Threats to an ecosystem service: pressures on pollinators
... Insect pollinators of crops and wild plants are under threat globally and their decline or loss could have profound economic and environmental consequences. Here, we argue that multiple anthropogenic pressures – ...
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Pollination and Guttation in Sweet Melon Cucumis Melo L. Grown Under Field and Greenhouse Conditions in Nairobi County, Kenya
... for pollination such as wild flowers and cultivated crops (Bouer and Wing, ...in pollination services thus affecting the population of animal pollinated plants (Smith et ...of pollination ...
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Economics of beekeeping as pollination management practices adopted by farmers in Chitwan district of Nepal
... looming pollination crisis all over the world, there has been a mobilization of effort on several levels to address pollination management and conserva- ...providing pollination services into ...
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A review of academically substantiated guidelines for designing honey bee habitat in residential yards
... ecosystem services honey bees provide will hopefully lead to an increase in civic ecological practices, a term coined to describe local, hands-on environmental stewardship actions (Krasny & Tidball, ...
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Scarcity of ecosystem services: an experimental manipulation of declining pollination rates and its economic consequences for agriculture
... of pollination services on farmland shifts the supply and demand function in the market (Southwick & Southwick, ...for pollination services will resemble ...of pollination ...
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Pollination review
... on pollination services, and 3–8 % of world crop production will disappear without ...Indeed, pollination provides several ecosystem services such as enabling crop and honey productions, ...
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Study on Varieties Combination Suitable for Mutual Pollination of Yan Mountain Chestnut
... Cross- pollination should be fully considered and pollination varieties should be well arranged in chestnut cultivation, otherwise production will be greatly reduced ...of pollination and fruiting ...
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ROLE OF HONEY BEES FORAGING ACTIVITIES IN INCREASED FRUIT SETTING AND PRODUCTION OF APPLES APIS MELLIFERA MALUS DOMESTICA
... natural pollination (T ) , pollination by honey bees only (T ), natural pollination augmented with honey bees (T ) and no pollination (T ...of pollination viz., natural ...
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Nutrient management in support of environmental and agricultural sustainability
... Glendining et al. [1] developed a framework for comparing the financial outputs and inputs of agriculture: that is a framework that includes both the orthodox economic evaluation but also the environmental costs of ...
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Reproductive ecology of buzz-pollinated Ouratea spectabilis trees (Ochnaceae) in Brazilian Cerrados
... Flowers from each marked tree were marked in different stages of the anthesis. Characteristics of each stage and time to change from one stage to the next were recorded. Pollen viability was estimated from three stamens ...
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Studies of the foraging behaviour, activity patterns and community structure of bumblebees (Bombus spp ) pollinating field beans (Vicia faba) and phacelia (Phacelia tanacetifolia) in Eastern Scotland
... Effective Pollination Period (EPP) to estimate the numbers of honeybees and bumblebees per vcP that would be necessary to pollinate 98% of the early flowers in a faba bean crop over a given time ...
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A proposed framework for efficient and cost-effective terrestrial orchid conservation
... To overcome low rates of natural pollination, orchids are cross-pollinated as described above, but allowed to disperse naturally. This is the simplest and most inexpensive form of intervention, but may not be ...
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