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Community-mediated mechanisms to stabilize pollination of agricultural production highly dependent on shrinking honey bee populations under global change

Description: Das Projekt "Community-mediated mechanisms to stabilize pollination of agricultural production highly dependent on shrinking honey bee populations under global change" wird vom Umweltbundesamt gefördert und von Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Ökologie (IE), Professur für Tierökologie durchgeführt. Almond in California represents an agroecosystem pollinated solely by a single species, the European honey bee, a species that is becoming increasingly difficult and expensive to manage due to substantial, unpredictable mortality. Therefore, sustainable and high output production require a more integrated approach that diversifies sources of pollination. For this purpose, detailed data of our understanding how diversity can stabilize pollination are required. The project will identify alternative wild pollinator species and collect high quality data contributing to our understanding of how diversity (pollen and insects) can bolster honey bee pollination during stable and unstable climatic conditions. The research will be carried out on almond orchards in Northern California known to be either pollinator species rich (up to 30 species) or depauperate (honey bees only). The replicated extremes in pollinator diversity represent a unique opportunity to study the effects of diversity on pollination in real agroecosystems combined with laboratory and glasshouse experiments. The overall goal is to provide basic research that is essential for our general understanding of how insect diversity can affect high-quality pollination under land use and climate change.

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Origin: /Bund/UBA/UFORDAT

Tags: Biene ? Lüneburg ? Insekt ? Tierhaltungsanlage ? Tierökologie ? Obstwiese ? Kalifornien ? Westliche Honigbiene ? Befruchtung ? Ökologie ? Bestäubung ? Honigbiene ? Insektenvielfalt ? Agrarökosystem ? Wirkung ? Agrarproduktion ? Daten ? Emission ? Flächennutzung ? Grundlagenforschung ? Mortalität ? Studie ? Pflanze ? Wirkung ? Globale Veränderung ? Forschung ? Klimawandel ? Pollen ? Population ? Bevölkerung ? Forschungseinrichtung ? Produktion ? Art [Spezies] ? PROJEKT ? Stall ? UNTER ? VERHAELTNIS ? ZWECKBESTIMMUNG ? Ökologie von Agrarlandschaften ? Diversität ? EXPERIMENT ? GEMEINSCHAFT ? GEMISCHT ? Honig ? MECHANISMEN ? NACHHALTIG ? ABHAENGIG ? NOERDLICH ?

Region: Lower Saxony

Bounding box: 9.16667° .. 9.16667° x 52.83333° .. 52.83333°

License: cc-by-nc-nd/4.0

Language: Deutsch

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Time ranges: 2009-01-01 - 2024-11-29

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