Findings in the Area of Applied Ecology Reported from Lund University (The relation between oilseed rape and pollination of later flowering plants varies across plant species and landscape contexts)

By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Ecology, Environment & Conservation -- Research findings on Ecology - Applied Ecology are discussed in a new report. According to news reporting originating in Lund, Sweden, by VerticalNews journalists, research stated, “Increasing cultivation of oilseed rape may have consequences for pollinators and wild plant pollination. By providing pollinating insects with pollen and nectar, oilseed rape benefits short-tongued, generalist insect species.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Lund University, “Long-tongued bumble bee species, specialized to other flower types, may instead be negatively affected by increased competition from the generalists (e.g. due to nectar-robbing of long-tubed flowers) after oilseed rape flowering has ceased. We expected that the increased abundance of short-tongued pollinators and reduced abundance of long-tongued bumble bees in landscapes with a high proportion of oilseed …

CITATION: (2017-12-22), Findings in the Area of Applied Ecology Reported from Lund University (The relation between oilseed rape and pollination of later flowering plants varies across plant species and landscape contexts), Ecology, Environment & Conservation, 342, ISSN: 1945-6506, BUTTER® ID: 014884452

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