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Fighting decline of pollinators in Europe
2015-02-19 07:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
PhysOrg: Pollination is crucial to providing food security with 84% of European crops benefitting, at least in part, from insect pollination and 78% of temperate wildflowers needing biotic pollination. An estimated ~10% of the total economic value of European agricultural output for human food amounted to â22 billion in 2005 (â14.2 for the EU) was dependent upon insect pollination. However, due to a cocktail of environmental stressors some pollinator species are declining and and the pollination services...
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