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Critical links between biodiversity and health in wild bee conservation.
Trends in ecology & evolution - 1 Apr 2022
Parreño M A, Alaux C, Brunet J-L, Buydens L, Filipiak M, Henry M, Keller A, Klein A-M, Kuhlmann M, Leroy C, Meeus I, Palmer-Young E, Piot N, Requier F, Ruedenauer F, Smagghe G, Stevenson P C, Leonhardt S D
Abstract excerpt
Wild bee populations are declining due to human activities, such as land use change, which strongly affect the composition and diversity of available plants and food sources. The chemical composition of food (i.e., nutrition) in turn determines the health, resilience, and fitness of bees. For pollinators, however, the term 'health' is recent and is subject to debate, as is the interaction between nutrition and...
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