Sentences with phrase «on pollinators»
However, the research plan does not include research on agricultural production practices, including organic practices, that have a demonstrated impact on pollinator health
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One - third of our food supply relies on pollinators like bees.
In the United States, about one third of all agricultural output depends on pollinators.
It shows that the dramatic changes in land use since World War II — in particular agricultural intensification and urbanisation — have had a significant impact on pollinator communities.
This is the first study of its kind to look at the impact of historic land - use change on pollinator communities in Britain.
«Understanding the major step changes in land utilisation over the last 80 - 100 years provides a unique understanding of the drivers within changing land - use that might have the most significant impact on pollinator communities,» Dr Senapathi says.
Thus, even if specific climate change effects on pollinators in Montana do materialize (or have already), they may be difficult to distinguish from non-local stressors.
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Research in our lab is focused on pollinator health.
We rely on pollinators like honey bees for much of our food supply.
For Khin and Burley, helping the bees is part of building a more sustainable food system, which is dependent on pollinators for many foods.
Intended to be a comprehensive approach to reducing the impact of stressors on pollinator health, including pests and pathogens, reduced habitat, lack of nutritional resources, and exposure to pesticides
OTA's Board of Directors adopted an official position on pollinator health.
The recommendations of IPBES will not be taking lightly: earlier, the report on pollinators have led to worldwide initiatives for the protection of bees and other pollinators, with the Netherlands is one of the frontrunners.
«I think I know what happened,» says Pettis, now in Salisbury, Md., consulting on pollinator health.
He said a study he authored on pollinators found that, as of 2015, 5 % to 8 % of current global crop production was attributable to pollinators, translating to an economic value of between $ 235 billion to $ 577 billion.
Plants usually produce chemical repellents to scare off insects that prey on their pollinators.
«As you start losing resources, then that's going to have a disproportionate impact on that specialist whose flowers are not really common to begin with; this is one of the real strengths of the study: it shows that the change in the flower population is actually exerting a selective pressure on the pollinator.»
«The next thing we want to tackle is what the increase in almonds will mean for the demand on pollinators,» says Watson.
«Yes, we have pretty much transitioned from a discussion of CCD to a discussion of honey bee health,» says Christina Grozinger, a Pennsylvania State University entomologist and one of the organizers of the 2013 International Conference on Pollinator Biology, Health and Policy, held at Penn State in August.
Research continues to show the ways in which neonicotinoids, the most widely used group of insecticides in the world, are having devastating effects on pollinator species, and new research reveals that some of these compounds are toxic to monarch caterpillars.
A new study has revealed that more and more specialized flowering plants may wind up missing out on pollinators as the spring season grows warmer for many parts of the world.
However, prolonged water stress may in fact reduce production of floral volatiles, so climate effects on pollinators through that signal may be non-uniform.
Kenyan entomologist Dino Martins, a former TBI Postdoctoral Fellow, is considered one of the world's leading authorities on pollinator insects.
They are a bit like those attempts to put a financial value on pollinators or soils.
FA striking example of our dependence on pollinator services and the damage that can be inflicted on the agricultural economy without them can be seen in the decline of US honeybee populations beginning in late 2006 which became known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).
More than 75 percent of the planet's flowering plants depend on pollinators (mostly insects) in order to reproduce.
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Seventy - five percent of all crops grown for human consumption rely on pollinators, predominantly bees, for a successful harvest.
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Calls for new toxicity study guidelines to more fully protect honeybees; a reevaluation of neonicotinoids and neonicotinoid seed treatments; assessment of other pesticides for their potential impacts on pollinators; restrictions on the use of pesticides that are acutely toxic to bees; reduced exposure during planting of pesticide - treated seed; and expedited review of Varroa mite control products.
In order to study the effects of climate change on pollinators, NASA has turned to the bees.
Further, «This exacerbation is consistent with a growing body of work that suggests the negative effects of combined stressors — including infection, diet quality, and consumption of pesticides — on pollinator health and that widespread infection could have consequences for bees» ability to tolerate phytochemicals.»
A non-traditional lassi featuring ingredients that depend on pollinators: strawberries and rose petals.
Declines in the pollination of wild plants may lead to increases in the population of plants that do not rely on pollinators, and pollinator declines would lead to decreases in crop yields, Fuentes noted.
Modern farmers rely on pollinators to stimulate the growth of their crops just as much as they rely on fuels to run their tractors.
About 75 % of all plants, including those in our yards, gardens, and parks, depend on pollinators.
The study also showed that 39 % of US croplands that depend on pollinators are suffering a significant mismatch between the demand for pollination and the supply of bees.
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