ISHS Acta Horticulturae 288: VI International Symposium on Pollination
POLLINATION: KEYSTONE PROCESS IN SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL PRODUCTIVITY |
| Author: | P.G. Kevan |
| DOI: | 10.17660/ActaHortic.1991.288.11 |
| Abstract:
Pollination is basic to agricultural and natural productivity and an ancient co-evolved process involving animals and plants in mutualism. The value to agriculture is huge and to global economy of nature inestimable. Nevertheless, pollination is a threatened system from highly managed agriculture to remote wilderness. Pesticides take their toll, insecticides directly killing pollinators and herbicides indirectly by reducing pollinator forage. Habitat destruction has reduced pollination in croplands and natural areas. Honey bee diseases threaten to change the demography of beekeeping and availability of pollination. Encouragement of wild pollinators, domestication of unused potential pollinators, and more environmentally sensitive human exploitation of the world are needed as part of conservation, forestry, agroforestry, sustainable agriculture and development. | |
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