Sentences with phrase «wild bees increases»

A promising study published last autumn by ecologists Sarah Greenleaf of the University of California at Davis and Claire Kremen of the University of California at Berkeley found that the presence of wild bees increases the efficiency of sunflower pollination fivefold.

Not exact matches

Claire Kremen, a conservation biologist at the University of California, Berkeley (and Harmon - Threatt's mentor), has shown that the diversity of pollinators drops with increasing distance from wild habitat, as does the number of visits by wild bees to flowering crops.

So far studies suggest that restoring wild habitat near farms to welcome and nurture native bees not only increases crop yield but also makes honeybees themselves more efficient pollinators.

If any thing else urbanization probably increases the cat population by a little along with huge increases n pollution, traffic, buildings, boys with bee bee guns, pesticides, Urbanization also has the nasty side effect of decreasing natural resources for all species of wild life including birds.

In the hopes of increasing local bee numbers, University of Buffalo architecture students created this intriguing wild urban bee habitat.

In 2014, President Obama issued a memorandum calling for an assessment of the state of honey and wild bees across the US, in the face of an increasing number of threats such as colony collapse disorder.

In the areas that have seen the most serious reduction in wild bees, there have been 200 % increases in the amount of corn planted.

Now a new, comprehensive study by University of Vermont researchers underscores the point — that U.S. wild bees are disappearing in many of the country's most important farmlands and that increased demand for corn to use in biofuel production is a significant part of the problem.

Farmers growing crops from apples to zucchini have long relied on wild pollinators — including various bee species, birds and bats — to fertilize plants and increase yields.