Science news articles about 'pollination service'

Bees provide crucial pollination service to numerous crops and up to a third of the human diet comes from ... would allow diseaseto invade wild pollinator populations near greenhouses. The model predicts ...

... major issue, but its impact remains an open question. In particular, the economic value of the pollination service they provide had not been assessed on solid ground to date. Based upon the figures ...

... crops, this increasingly intensive management may have, for now, overcome any losses in pollinator service, but it also increases production costs. There is also evidence that one response to lower ...

... a predictive way and use those to inform us about natural populations and how they deliver pollinator services to crops?" he asks. Rachael Winfree of Rutgers University is particularly interested ...

... in agricultural systems can actually benefit crops—by preventing pest outbreaks and providing native pollinator services. Our study shows that agricultural crops can also benefit native trees living ...

... a positive feedback circuit that could promote more habitat destruction and further deterioration of pollination services. The good news is that less-intensively managed agro-ecosystems that preserve ...