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Pollinator diversity and land sharing/sparing

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  • ClockTuesday 23 April 2013, 13:00-14:00
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Jonny Hanson will lead a discussion on bees, pollination and land sparing / sharing. Please see the link below to a short paper by Garibaldi et al. (2013) in Science as background reading, and there is also a relevant article in the Guardian here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/15/bee-harming-pesticides-escape-european-ban

Garibaldi, L. A., Steffan-Dewenter, I., Winfree, R., Aizen, M. A., Bommarco, R., Cunningham, S. A., … Klein, A. M. (2013). Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance. Science, 339(6127), 1608–1611. doi:10.1126/science.1230200

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6127/1608.abstract

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