Being close to a natural habitat such as a forest doesn’t necessarily make farmland more attractive to pollinators, a new study shows.
Being close to a natural habitat such as a forest doesn’t necessarily make farmland more attractive to pollinators, a new study shows.
It is commonly thought that when farmland is close to a natural habitat it is more likely to attract bees and other pollinators, and that more flowers will develop into seeds and fruit.
But a meta-analysis of how distance from natural habitats affects pollination in tropical smallholder farms discovered this is not always the case.
Read more at: University of Exeter
Coffee plant with honeybee in Tarrazu, Costa Rica. (Photo Credit: John E Banks)
