16.12.2013 Pollination and Land Degradation: Top Priorities for New Intergovernmental Body First Work Plan and Budget for The Intergovernmental Platform for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Approved The groundbreaking Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPB...

16.12.2013 Article alert: Multiple Criteria for Evaluating Pollinator Performance in Highbush Blueberry (Ericales: Ericaceae) Agroecosystems Environmental Entomology (2013)Rogers SR, Tarpy DR, Burrack HJNumerous bee species provide pollination services in agricultural ecosystems. Evaluating a pollinator's performance with regard to a crop is an im...

16.12.2013 Article alert: Pollinators at Risk: Human activities threaten key species BioScience (2013)doi: 10.1093/biosci/bit012Myrna E. WatanabeIn the summer of 2013, the unthinkable happened: The Eastern seaboard population of monarch butterflies—those orange and black icons, whose complex ...

16.12.2013 Article alert: The identity of crop pollinators helps target conservation for improved ecosystem services Biological Conservation (2014) 169: 128–135. doi: 10.1016/j.biocon.2013.11.001Garratt MPD, Coston DJ, Truslove CL, Lappage MG, Polce C, Dean R, Biesmeijer JS, Potts SGInsect pollinated mass flowering crops ar...

16.12.2013 Commission launches pilot to open up publicly funded research data Today, 16/12/2013, the European Commission announced the launch of a new Pilot on Open Research Data in Horizon 2020, to ensure that valuable information produced by researchers in many EU-funded projects will be shared freel...

13.12.2013 Call for papers International Workshop and Special Issue on Governance of Ecosystem Services: Challenges for Sustainable Development Place: Frankfurt am MainDate: 10 & 11 March 2014 The workshop and the special issue contribute to the work of the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP) Thematic Working Group on ‘Governance and Institutional Asp...

11.12.2013 Article alert: Bee diversity effects on pollination depend on functional complementarity and niche shifts Ecology (2013) 94: 2042–2054. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/12-1620.1Jochen Fründ, Carsten F. Dormann, Andrea Holzschuh, and Teja TscharntkeBiodiversity is important for many ecosystem processes. Global decl...

09.12.2013 Event alert: The 7th Annual Caribbean Bee Congress and 2nd Annual Caribbean Bee College The 7th Annual Caribbean Bee Congress and 2nd Annual Caribbean Bee College will be held Monday-Friday, May 26-30, 2014 at the University of the Virgin Islands, Albert A. Sheen Campus, Kingshill, St. Croix, United State...

05.12.2013 Article alert: Bee pollination improves crop quality, shelf life and commercial value Proc. R. Soc. B (2014) 281(1775) 20132440Klatt BK et al.Pollination improves the yield of most crop species and contributes to one-third of global crop production, but comprehensive benefits including crop qu...

29.11.2013 Article alert: Fire Promotes Pollinator Visitation: Implications for Ameliorating Declines of Pollination Services PLoS ONE (2013) 8(11): e79853. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079853Van Nuland ME, Haag EN, Bryant JAM, Read QD, Klein RN, et al. Pollinators serve critical roles for the functioning of terrestrial ecosystems, an...

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