Did you know that approximately 75% of the world’s leading food crops rely at least in part on animal pollinators This ...

Flowers and their pollinators are an example of this kind of close relationship. Over time, flowers have evolved shapes, colours and scents that maximise their pollination chances. Pollinators have ...

Ireland, as a member state of the EU, must improve pollinator diversity and reverse the decline of pollinator populations by ...

However, the large size of bats can also make pollination by them energetically expensive for plants. One example is the ...

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Fast-rising temperatures can change how plants and animals behave and disrupt the delicate timing of pollination.

2009). Plant-pollinator interactions are good examples of mutualistic interactions because nearly three-quarters of all extant flowering plants (angiosperms) receive pollination services from ...

Because sunflower is a hybrid crop, improving its traits requires creating inbred parent lines, which typically takes six years through repeated self-pollination. In the study, "Haploid ...

For example, bat-pollinated crops like durian ... Scientists have discovered that bat pollination, or chiropterophily, involves complex interactions between species. Bats have evolved specialized ...

We are interested in how anthropogenic impacts from farming to logging to cattle grazing affect bee communities and pollination services. For example, we are currently investigating how rangeland ...