Sentences with phrase «affect pollination»

They say that these changes may affect honeybees» foraging efficiency and, ultimately, could affect pollination and thus global food security.

They were interested to learn how the arrangement of flowers — such as circled around the stem or in a line — affects pollination.

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Cold temperatures also affect tree pollination.

Cross pollination only affects subsequent generations, not the current pods on the plants.

It's not known how pollination affects fruit color, but the change makes sense for the plant's goal of attracting animals to disperse the seeds.

Further research should focus on how our native bees are affected and the pollination services that this new species provides.»

«If exposure to low levels of pesticide affects their ability to learn, bees may struggle to collect food and impair the essential pollination services they provide to both crops and wild plants.»

«Our results suggest that current levels of pesticide exposure could be significantly affecting how bees are interacting with wild plants, and impairing the crucial pollination services they provide that support healthy ecosystem function,» he said.

Dropping populations of wild bees in agricultural areas could affect crop pollination and result in higher costs for farmers, researchers report December 21 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Because buzz pollination requires a complex set of behaviours, Dr Whitehorn wanted to find out whether it was affected by neonicotinoids.

Beside the quality of conspecific pollen (e.g. outcross pollen), also interspecific pollen, which might clog the stigma and thus prevent attachment of conspecific pollen, affects the success of pollination [63].

In addition, the bees» pollen collecting behaviour and morphology of grooming and storing devices affect the number of pollen grains left over for pollination.

Her research interests include (1) how pollinators and the pollination services they provide are affected by global change, (2) the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services, (3) plant - pollinator networks, and (4) pollinator conservation and restoration.

Through her research, Dr. Gallagher addresses questions about the mechanisms governing how global climate change affects plant - pollinator interactions and the extent to which changes in the levels of pollination influence the ecology and evolution of plant populations.

Publishing in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B journal a group of researchers have reported that the pesticides that they tested affected the learning of honeybee and bumblebee differently and that this should be accounted for when creating accurate pollination models.

While it may take a team of scientists to understand how temperature affects rice pollination, anyone can tell that a wilted cornfield is suffering from heat stress.

«Sharp rise in temperature will cause forced maturity of grains as a result neither grains will attain their proper size or weight nor will they accumulate optimum levels of starch thereby reducing the grain yield; pollination in banana, another important crop of the Indus delta, will be affected due to early winter and high spring temperatures.

A good example is the pollination of plants by bees and birds and other species, a service which may be negatively affected by climate change.

According to ISRAEL21c, last winter, over 36 percent of US bee colonies collapsed, affecting honey production, but more significantly, the collapsed affected one - third of all food production that requires pollination - from fruits and nuts, to the dairy and beef cows that feed on alfalfa.

Bugs often get a bad rap from people, even though they are vital to our ecosystems and are crucial for pollination, which in turn affects human agriculture.