Animals and microbes sustain ecosystems, food systems and climate stability. Their decline threatens global resilience and ...

Even at levels safe for humans, air pollution can disrupt the way some insects communicate with plants, and with each other.

Pollination by animals contributes to a third of global food production, but little research has been done into the extent to which the identity of pollinators, pollen and crop varieties influence ...

Pollinators including insects, birds, bats, and other animals are essential to agriculture and natural ecosystems throughout North America. About three-quarters of all flowering plant species rely on ...

Pollination by animals contributes to a third of global food production, but little research has been done into the extent to which the identity of pollinators, pollen and crop varieties influence ...

One of the major challenges faced by pollinators is that much of their habitat has been co-opted for human use. Usually, it’s altered in ways that make it inhospitable for pollinators as well as other ...

A new paper in Annals of Botany, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that pollination can have a dramatic effect on how plants grow and change. The study shows that when plants and ...

For the past four years, plant biologist Elsa Godtfredsen has trekked to a subalpine meadow in Colorado to study the interactions between wildflowers and bumblebees. The pollinators buzz among fields ...

Based on a symposium held as part of the 16th International Botanical Gongress held in St. Louis, Mo., Aug. 1999. The effect of variation among floral traits on the flower constancy of pollinators / ...

You may be familiar with the health benefits (both physical and mental) that gardening can provide you as an individual, but at least one type of gardening in particular has the potential to help all ...