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Cocktail of multiple pressures combine to threaten the world’s pollinating insects
http://www.ceh.ac.uk/news/news_archive/multiple-pressures-cocktail-pollinators_2013_26.html[font face=Serif][font size=5]Cocktail of multiple pressures combine to threaten the world’s pollinating insects[/font]
22 April 2013
[font size=3]A new review of insect pollinators of crops and wild plants has concluded they are under threat globally from a cocktail of multiple pressures, and their decline or loss could have profound environmental, human health and economic consequences.
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Dr Adam Vanbergen, from the UK’s Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) and science coordinator of the IPI, led the review. He said, "There is no single smoking gun behind pollinator declines, instead there is a cocktail of multiple pressures that can combine to threaten these insects. For example, the loss of food resources in intensively-farmed landscapes, pesticides and diseases are individually important threats, but are also likely to combine and exacerbate the negative impacts on pollinators."
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/12012622 April 2013
[font size=3]A new review of insect pollinators of crops and wild plants has concluded they are under threat globally from a cocktail of multiple pressures, and their decline or loss could have profound environmental, human health and economic consequences.
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Dr Adam Vanbergen, from the UK’s Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) and science coordinator of the IPI, led the review. He said, "There is no single smoking gun behind pollinator declines, instead there is a cocktail of multiple pressures that can combine to threaten these insects. For example, the loss of food resources in intensively-farmed landscapes, pesticides and diseases are individually important threats, but are also likely to combine and exacerbate the negative impacts on pollinators."
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