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Long-Term Global Trends in Crop Yield and Production Reveal No Current Pollination Shortage but Increasing Pollinator Dependency

Aizen, Marcelo A.; Garibaldi, Lucas A.; Cunningham, Saul; Klein, Alexandra M.

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There is evidence that pollinators are declining as a result of local and global environmental degradation 1, 2, 3 and 4. Because a sizable proportion of the human diet depends directly or indirectly on animal pollination [5], the issue of how decreases in pollinator stocks could affect global crop production is of paramount importance 6, 7 and 8. Using the extensive FAO data set [9], we compared 45 year series (1961–2006) in yield, and total production and cultivated area of...[Show more]

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Date published: 2008
Type: Journal article
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1885/261151
Source: Current Biology
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.08.066

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