Australian Broadcast Corpation: Researchers from Flinders University say bees are an important indicator of a changing global climate and making best use of them is the key to future food security.
Adelaide PhD student Scott Groom has used mathematical modelling to determine changes in bee populations across the South Pacific region over the past 20,000 years.
"We see a really large decline in bee populations that coincides with the last glacial maximum (ice age), at which time we had lowering sea levels and everything getting...