Monitoring bee health in European agro-ecosystems using wing morphology and fat bodies

Environmental Evaluation and Monitoring of Agro-Ecosystems Biodiversity

Honey bee‐collected pollen in agro‐ecosystems reveals diet diversity, diet quality, and pesticide exposure

European honey bees Apis mellifera are important commercial pollinators that have suffered greater than normal overwintering losses since 2007 in North America and Europe. Contributing factors likely include a combination of parasites, pesticides, and poor nutrition. We examined diet diversity, diet nutritional quality, and pesticides in honey bee-collected pollen from commercial colonies in th...

Methane emissions in drained peat agro-ecosystems

Spatial and temporal variation of methane emissions in drained eutrophic peat agro-ecosystems: drainage ditches as emission hotspots A. P. Schrier-Uijl, E. M. Veenendaal, P. A. Leffelaar, J. C. van Huissteden, and F. Berendse Department of Nature Conservation and Plant Ecology, Wageningen University, Droevendaalse steeg 3a, 6708 PD Wageningen, The Netherlands Department of Plant Production Syst...

Microbial Biotechnology: biofuels, genotoxicity reporters and robust agro‐ecosystems

Craig Daniels,1 Carmen Michán2 and Juan-Luis Ramos3* Structural Proteomics in Toronto, UHN and University of Toronto, Banting and Best Department of Medical Research; C.H. Best Institute 112 College Street, M5G 1L6, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Cordoba, Campus de Rabanales, E-14071 Córdoba, Spain. Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Con...

Farming Efficiency and the Survival of Valuable Agro-Ecosystems: A Case Study of Rice Farming in European Mediterranean Wetlands

Beyond the conventional role of providing food, rice farming in European Mediterranean wetlands performs a valuable non-marketable function related to the provision of environmental services. Rice and biodiversity are jointly produced, so that provision of flooded-rice-fields based environmental services depends crucially on private profitability of rice farming. Recent reforms of the Common Ag...