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Cross-pollinationBeesPollinatorsInsectsCropsRole in pollinationPollenWind pollinationBird pollinationRequire pollinationPollinatorSpeciesVegetablesPlantCrop2021PlantsEcosystem serviceOccursPruningBlueberryPredationImportantPest and diseaseMechanismsFloral traitsAbundanceDivergencePredictBumblebeesPestsBiodiversitySearchSoil TypeFlowersBeekeeperBirdsTendServicesWasps
Cross-pollination10
  • More specifically, the paper reports insights from a study which created 'cross-pollination' spaces to bring together academic and non-academic individuals from different backgrounds, disciplines, and sectors to explore the notion of incubating civic leadership and to develop pop-up interventions to test ideas for incubating civic leadership in two locations in the UK. (open.ac.uk)
  • Drawing on the reflections of participants collected through group reflection spaces and through individual interviews, the study identifies a number of common themes which help understand the value of cross-pollination spaces, but also the barriers and enablers of civic design leadership. (open.ac.uk)
  • While many blueberries are partially self-fertile, some are not, and cross-pollination with a partner plant of a different variety will greatly increase the size, quantity, and quality of the blueberry harvest. (raintreenursery.com)
  • The pollinizers should be planted no further than 50 feet apart, and if possible be in line of sight, to ensure proper cross-pollination. (raintreenursery.com)
  • While a few cherry trees are self-fruitful, most require cross-pollination. (gardenguides.com)
  • All Japanese plum trees require another tree for cross-pollination. (gardenguides.com)
  • Tomatoes require cross-pollination for growth. (researchandmarkets.com)
  • Various locations will be used for meetings to encourage a cross pollination of ideas and interests. (who.int)
  • As part of a public health investigation of a manufacturing facility, we performed paired environmental and human sampling to evaluate cross-pollination of microbes between environment and host and possible effects on lung pathology present among workers. (cdc.gov)
  • Conclusions: Evaluation of a manufacturing facility with a cluster of workers with respiratory disease supports cross-pollination of microbes from MWF to humans and suggests the potential for exposure to these microbes to be a health hazard. (cdc.gov)
Bees19
  • Bees are essential for pollination of many crops and they also pollinate flowers in the garden and in wild areas, helping to support natural systems. (msu.edu)
  • These lone bees are called 'solitary bees' and just because they don't have a big family doesn't mean they don't have a big impact on pollination. (farmanddairy.com)
  • There are a few different types of solitary bees that are common such as carpenter bees, mason bees and leafcutter bees. (farmanddairy.com)
  • Raising these types of bees is fun and requires little to no effort. (farmanddairy.com)
  • Solitary bees, often termed the "workhorses" of the pollination world, live for about a year. (earth.com)
  • Some common types include mason bees, leafcutter bees, and sweat bees. (earth.com)
  • Bombus impatiens - Delivered in specially designed hives, live Bumble Bees can be used effectively for the pollination of a variety of crops like tomatoes, sweet peppers, eggplants, melons, strawberries, apples, pears and cherries. (ecplaza.net)
  • Bees are winged insects closely related to wasps and ants , known for their roles in pollination and, in the case of the best-known bee species, the western honey bee , for producing honey . (wikipedia.org)
  • Bee pollination is important both ecologically and commercially , and the decline in wild bees has increased the value of pollination by commercially managed hives of honey bees. (wikipedia.org)
  • This plant will provide nectar and pollen for bees and the many other types of pollinating insects. (rhs.org.uk)
  • Below, we have broken down the most common types of bees, wasps and hornets in Michigan and how to tell the difference between them. (ahealthiermichigan.org)
  • This type of bee is social, and lives in small hives with less than 200 bees. (ahealthiermichigan.org)
  • These types of bees do not produce honey. (ahealthiermichigan.org)
  • Could the flying B-Droid help bees with pollination? (designindaba.com)
  • Bees are responsible for pollinating about one-sixth of the flowering plant species in the world and approximately 400 different agricultural types of plant. (designindaba.com)
  • Are there risks to wild European bumble bees from using commercial stocks of domesticated Bombus terrestris for crop pollination? (warwick.ac.uk)
  • Even if more bees in cities is not the solution for the countryside pollination problems, a diversity of bee species in cities could help us with urban farming and local food production, but primarily with creating a pleasant and sustainable environment. (lu.se)
  • Besides finding food (pollen and nectar) from different types of flower, bees also have different preferences for where they build their nests. (lu.se)
  • Pollination is primarily performed by insects such as bumblebees, solitary bees and honeybees. (lu.se)
Pollinators7
  • If these key pollinators are negatively affected by climate change, network structure and the pollination service that depends on it would be seriously compromised. (napier.ac.uk)
  • Pollination is important during your orchard planning as well, since you need pollinators to fly between your blueberry bushes. (raintreenursery.com)
  • In addition, pollination was measured at each site by comparing the number of berries and berry weights between bushes with open flowers (exposed to pollinators), bagged flowers (pollinators excluded), and hand-pollinated flowers (exposed to pollinators and with supplemental pollen provided via a fine paintbrush). (americanbeejournal.com)
  • This means having greater amounts of semi-natural habitat surrounding blueberry fields increases the number of wild pollinators, which may improve pollination. (americanbeejournal.com)
  • For example, the simplification of the agricultural landscape in the last century may have resulted in the disadvantage of specialized pollinators, with negative effects on the pollination of wild plants or crops that need these pollinators. (lu.se)
  • Pollinators compete with each other and such competition is dependent on the spatial scale at which they exploit resources, the type of flowers they specialize on and much more. (lu.se)
  • Much less is known about these dynamics in generalized pollination systems, where a single plant species interacts with a broad taxonomic and functional diversity of pollinators. (lu.se)
Insects7
  • Insects provide key pollination services in most terrestrial biomes, but this service depends on a multi-step interaction between insect and plant. (napier.ac.uk)
  • Societal dependence on insects for pollination of agricultural crops has risen amidst concerns over pollinator declines. (usgs.gov)
  • Darwin published in 1862 the first observations of the fundamental role of insects in orchid pollination, in his book The Fertilization of Orchids. (wikipedia.org)
  • New research reveals how you might tailor a lawn to the types of insects you want to attract for pollination or pest control. (discovermagazine.com)
  • The two types of seed mixes differed a bit in terms of the types of insects they attracted: The commercially available mix was more tempting to solitary and bumblebee species, and also significantly increased bee diversity compared to its entomologist-curated counterpart. (discovermagazine.com)
  • The results indicate how residents might tailor their gardens to the types of insects they want to attract for pollination or pest control. (discovermagazine.com)
  • Reduced biodiversity among pollinating insects often leads to poorer pollination. (lu.se)
Crops7
  • A fast pollination of crops is extremely important as it alleviates the negative effects of unstable weather conditions such as spring frost. (europa.eu)
  • Without pollination , many of our favorite food crops would cease to exist. (gardeningknowhow.com)
  • Most fields where pollination-dependent crops are grown exist within mixed agricultural landscapes where one farmer's field may be next to another farmer's field, which may be next to a non-crop field or maybe even a section of woods. (americanbeejournal.com)
  • Other land-use types in the surrounding landscapes were non-blueberry arable crops, pastures, and other areas (e.g., water bodies, urban areas). (americanbeejournal.com)
  • Mass produced colonies of the Eurasian bumble bee, Bombus terrestris L., have been used in Europe for over 30 years for the pollination of horticultural crops. (warwick.ac.uk)
  • Without pollination, many of our crops and orchards couldn't produce the fruits, nuts and grains that feed not only us, but much of the livestock that we also rely on for meat and dairy products. (discovermagazine.com)
  • In fact, more than 90 species of specialty crops in the U.S. alone require pollination, according to the Department of Agriculture. (discovermagazine.com)
Role in pollination1
Pollen13
  • In this study, we combine data on visitation, pollen transport, and single-visit pollen deposition to estimate functional outcomes in the high-Arctic plant-pollinator network of Zackenberg, Northeast Greenland, a model system for global warming-associated impacts in pollination services. (napier.ac.uk)
  • Wind pollination of plants begins with the release of large amounts of fine pollen. (gardeningknowhow.com)
  • Wind pollination advantages exist in instances of mass plants or where pollen may need to be carried great distances. (gardeningknowhow.com)
  • In this process, pollen is able to be effectively carried to same-type plants with receptive female structures. (gardeningknowhow.com)
  • The symptoms you experience will depend on the type of pollen, or pollens, you're sensitive to. (dyson.com)
  • This may help you understand the types of pollen - and plants - you're particularly sensitive to. (dyson.com)
  • Pollination involves the movement of pollen from one flower to the next, or between the sexual organs of the same flower. (gardenguides.com)
  • Le réalisateur Louie Schwartzberg nous fait découvrir l'univers complexe du pollen et des pollinisateurs au travers de magnifiques images accélérées de son film « Pollen », qu'il a filmé en réaction à la disparition de l'un des principaux pollinisateurs, l'abeille. (ted.com)
  • Secondly, we compiled all human indicators from pollen-based paleoecological literature in Latin America (based on 750 references), providing an overview of 212 single-pollen type indicators and identified 95 crucial combinations of pollen types as "human indices", and their corresponding references. (bvsalud.org)
  • Reproductive costs were quantified using interspecific hand pollinations and measures of pollen-tube formation, combined with observations of pollen arrival on stigmas and pollen-tube formation after natural pollination in allopatric and sympatric localities. (bvsalud.org)
  • A post-pollination incompatibility system maintains reproductive isolation, but conspecific pollen-tube formation was lower after heterospecific pollination. (bvsalud.org)
  • Under natural pollination at sites of coflowering with congeners, conspecific pollen-tube formation was lower than at single-species localities. (bvsalud.org)
  • Trizoncolporate, Tricolporate, and Tetracolporate are the three types of pollen apertures observed in examined species. (bvsalud.org)
Wind pollination4
Bird pollination2
  • Bird pollination is relatively common in the tropics, and especially in the Americas. (peerj.com)
  • One well-known suite of floral traits is associated with the bird pollination syndrome-ornithophily, which is present in some 65 flowering plant families ( Cronk & Ojeda, 2008 ). (peerj.com)
Require pollination1
Pollinator7
  • The pollination of orchids is a complex chapter in the biology of this family of plants that are distinguished by the complexity of their flowers and by intricate ecological interactions with their pollinator agents. (wikipedia.org)
  • The pollinator section offers great photos coupled with tips for identifying bee species, descriptions of their behavior and contribution to pollination. (msu.edu)
  • We used the pollination module of InVEST (a suite of software models used to map and value ecosystem services), along with fine-scale land cover data and empirical data on bee distributions, to assess different scenarios of urban pollinator management in Chicago, Illinois (USA). (uri.edu)
  • Locally, incomplete pollinator partitioning might cause interspecific pollination, imposing reproductive costs. (bvsalud.org)
  • We are particularly interested in understanding how variation in the composition of local pollinator assemblages can drive the evolution of floral traits involved the pollination process. (lu.se)
  • This project will assess whether the composition of the local pollinator assemblage can predict variation in plant phenotypes, with a focus on floral traits involved in the pollination process. (lu.se)
  • The student will quantify distinct land cover types at different spatial scales and evaluate the association among particular land cover types and the composition of the local pollinator assemblage. (lu.se)
Species5
  • For specialized pollinating animals, competition with other anthophilous animals decreased, and targeted or specialized pollination in a single species became ultimately advantageous for them. (wikipedia.org)
  • The flower pollination algorithm (FPA) is a highly efficient metaheuristic optimization algorithm that is inspired by the pollination process of flowering species. (city.ac.uk)
  • Type 0,+ includes phoresis, which is the transport of one species by another. (newworldencyclopedia.org)
  • It is difficult to find much information on the pollination of specific aroid species, unless it is a species for which numerous hybrids have been made. (aroid.org)
  • Landscape transformation, invasive organisms, climate change and other human-induced changes lead to altered population sizes and species composition - changes in biodiversity - which in turn can negatively affect functions such as carbon capture, pollination and pest control. (lu.se)
Vegetables1
  • It is also a condition for production of many types of fruit and vegetables. (lu.se)
Plant8
  • Though pollination can be aided by growers, corn is just one example of a plant which relies on the wind for a bountiful harvest. (gardeningknowhow.com)
  • Pollination by frugivorous birds represents a special case of mutualism that highlights the evolutionary complexities of plant-animal interactions. (peerj.com)
  • After all the beans (except the control group) have been "zapped," you'll plant them in the same type of containers and soil. (teachervision.com)
  • Most apple trees require you to plant two trees to induce pollination. (gardenguides.com)
  • Much of what we know about the drivers of plant phenotypic divergence and fitness stems from studies that focus on specialized pollination systems. (lu.se)
  • The main focus of this project is to address this research gap and understand how spatial and temporal variation in the ecological process of pollination drives the phenotypic divergence and fitness of plant populations. (lu.se)
  • We are searching for a motivated student interested in studying the process of pollination as a driver of plant evolution. (lu.se)
  • Basic knowledge of pollination ecology and plant evolution is preferred, as well as quantitative skills and basic coding skills in R. The projects described below involve the analysis of previously collected data and the implementation of greenhouse experiments. (lu.se)
Crop7
  • We predict an up to 10% increase in crop yield due to the improved management of pollination by hivepoll. (europa.eu)
  • Crop pollination is critically important for farmers and it's a major revenue source for many beekeepers. (americanbeejournal.com)
  • In other words, should farmers consider landscape-scale hive density instead of field-scale hive density if their goal is to maximize crop pollination? (americanbeejournal.com)
  • Semi-natural habitat was quantified because this habitat type is often associated with wild bee abundance during crop pollination, and it can also potentially influence honey bee visitation to crop flowers (more on that later). (americanbeejournal.com)
  • An evolutionary perspective should be taken into account to ensure long-term crop pollination. (lu.se)
  • The paper by Mikael Pontarp and colleagues, recently published in Biological Reviews, use this knowledge as a starting point for understanding how an important ecosystem function, crop pollination, is affected by global environmental change. (lu.se)
  • However, how crop pollination is affected by changes in the environment is not straightforward. (lu.se)
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Plants5
Ecosystem service2
Occurs2
Pruning1
Blueberry5
Predation1
  • Supplementary Table 1 ) and 19 indicators of ecosystem functioning associated with productivity of oil palms and planted trees, resistance to invasion, pollination, soil quality, predation and herbivory, carbon and nutrient cycling and water and climate regulation (Supplementary Table 2 ). (nature.com)
Important3
  • Weekly networks for the middle of the flowering season emerged as especially important, as most pollination service can be expected to be provided by these large, highly-nested networks. (napier.ac.uk)
  • Therefore, generating knowledge on the urban ES of differently scaled green infrastructure types is important. (mdpi.com)
  • Given the importance of pollination, it's equally important to assess whether stocking-density recommendations are sound. (americanbeejournal.com)
Pest and disease1
  • These provide clean air, fresh water, medicines, food and nutrition security and support critical ecosystem functions and services such pest and disease regulation, pollination, climate regulation, and mitigating the impacts of extreme events. (who.int)
Mechanisms1
Floral traits1
  • These reproductive costs may generate selection on floral traits for reduced morphological overlap with coflowering congeners, leading to the evolution of pollination ecotypes. (bvsalud.org)
Abundance1
  • We found that the output of InVEST's pollination model was significantly related to empirical measures of bee richness (explaining 46% of the variation) but not bee abundance in Chicago. (uri.edu)
Divergence1
  • Mapping of morphological characters indicated some degree of convergence (e.g., fleshy petals, purplish display) but also considerable divergence in key characters that point to rather opposing pollination strategies and also different degrees of specialization in Acca versus Myrrhinium . (peerj.com)
Predict1
  • The article presents a model that can help us understand and predict pollination under different agricultural landscape management. (lu.se)
Bumblebees1
  • The researchers found that, regardless of the type of seed mix used, gardens boasting mini meadows saw more than a twofold increase in bumblebees the year after the meadow was sown. (discovermagazine.com)
Pests1
  • When the paddles don't have any protection then a number of pests eat them and can cause this type of scarring. (reviewjournal.com)
Biodiversity2
Search3
  • Type 2 or more characters into the input search below for suggested results, use up and down arrow keys to navigate through suggest box. (missouri.edu)
  • type keywords into the search box or use the filtering options below to find the content relevant for you - including peer-reviewed journal articles and non-peer reviewed grey literature. (britishecologicalsociety.org)
  • Article Type Search - Search articles by article type and issue. (cdc.gov)
Soil Type1
  • Applications once a week might even be enough if there is a 2-to-3-inch layer of wood chips on the soil surface and depending on the soil type. (reviewjournal.com)
Flowers1
  • These hybrids carry some of the best qualities of both, featuring the upright growth habit and larger flowers of the Norther Highbush, with the heat resistance and lower chill hours of the Rabbiteye types. (raintreenursery.com)
Beekeeper2
  • We provide estimates of how land use affects beekeeper economics by linking summer habitat with pollination service payments and later production of new colonies. (usgs.gov)
  • impacting the beekeeper with a reduced per colony rental fee for pollination services and reduced potential for creating new spring colonies, based on prior growing season land use. (usgs.gov)
Birds2
  • Here we include new sequences of Myrrhinium atropurpureum in a comprehensive molecular phylogeny based on a balanced sample of two plastid and two nuclear markers, with the aim of providing the historical framework of pollination by frugivorous birds in Myrteae. (peerj.com)
  • Many other types of birds come to feed on seeds when fruit develops after pollination, and seeds are dispersed in their droppings. (gardenguides.com)
Tend1
  • The hybrids tend towards a broad spreading crab apple type tree so thin to create a more uniform crown with good light penetration. (oikostreecrops.com)
Services2
  • It also demonstrates the direct linkages between habitat in the Northern Great Plains, bee health, and pollination services rendered elsewhere in the US. (usgs.gov)
  • The Community Preventive Services Task Force (CPSTF) recommends team-based care to control type 2 diabetes based on strong evidence of effectiveness. (cdc.gov)
Wasps1