[BCFSN] honey bee impacts on wild bees | new perspectives on crop rotations

[Pamela Zevit]

>From Entomology Today, and the Applied Ecologist

 

More Research Needed to Better Balance Honey Bees and Native Bees. "The review, the researchers
emphasize, shows that "maintaining honey bee colony health for pollination services while causing
minimal impact to already threatened communities of native bees should be considered when putting
honey bees in floral-rich areas."
https://entomologytoday.org/2018/06/18/more-research-needed-to-better-balance-honey-bees-and-native-
bees/

 

Crop rotations called into question. These findings illustrate that distantly related crops are
indeed not always better rotation partners. The well-designed, novel experiment by Ingerslew &
Kaplan calls for more coordinated efforts to develop similar research on other common crops. As the
authors write, this is indeed much needed to develop better science-based criteria for crop
rotations. Such future research should consider the crop's functional life history traits,
aboveground as well as belowground interactions between rotation partners, and rotation partner
disease susceptibility. Rotations are the backbone of the globe's agriculture, and deserve more
attention from applied ecologists.

https://jappliedecologyblog.wordpress.com/2018/06/14/crop-rotations-called-into-question/  

 

 

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