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Published online 16 October 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1175
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Agriculture unaffected by pollinator declines
Global crop yields have not suffered even though key insect populations have shrunk.
Bees and many other insects may be in decline almost everywhere — but agriculture that depends on pollinators has been surprisingly unaffected at the global scale.
That's the conclusion of a study by Alexandra Klein at the University of California, Berkeley, and her colleagues.
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- 20 Oct, 2008
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- 20 Oct, 2008
- Posted by: han xun
