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Honeybee colonies have increased exponentially in the Mediterranean Basin
Evidence for pollinator declines largely originates from mid-latitude regions in North America and Europe. Geographical heterogeneity in pollinator trends combined with geographical biases in...
The importance of bee diversity for crop pollination
Ecologists have shown through hundreds of experiments that ecological communities with more species produce higher levels of essential ecosystem functions such as biomass production, nutrient...
Competition between honeybees y wild pollinators
During the past decades, managed honeybee stocks have increased globally. Managed honeybees are particularly used within mass-flowering crops and often spill over to adjacent natural habitats after...
Mass flowering crops in a patchy agricultural landscape can reduce bee abundance in adjacent shrublands
Pollinator spill-over among habitats can arise in order to fulfill the pollination function and whenever differences in floral offering change over time or space. Flowering crops offer pulsed and...