תוצאות חיפוש: מאמר

Recent declines in honey bee populations have created deficiencies in agricultural pollination, and motivated the search for alternatives to traditional honey bee colonies. Mini-nucleus colonies (mininucs), small honey bee hives containing a few hundred workers, are easier and cheaper to set up, maintain and transport than regular sized colonies.it was tested whether mininucs can provide effective agricultural pollination in enclosures.

This paper presents a comprehensive economic analysis of recycling organic wastes through composting.

Crop fields can harbor large populations of agrobionts, which may spill over into nearby semi-desert. they tested the influence of percentage area of agricultural fields on spider assemblages in semi-desert habitat of agroecosystems in the northwestern Negev desert, Israel.

Understanding species-diversity patterns in heterogeneous landscapes invites comprehensive research on how scale-dependent processes interact across scales. They used two common beetle families to conduct such a study in the heterogeneous semi-arid landscape of the Southern Judean Lowland of Israel, currently undergoing intensive fragmentation.

Diversification of vegetation within and around agricultural habitats is an effective strategy to support populations of natural enemies of crops’ pests. Such diversification can be achieved by conservation of natural vegetation that develops spontaneously around the plots, as well as by active introduction of companion plants to the crop. In this study we compared these two approaches in pomegranate orchards in Mediterranean climate.

Bees provide essential pollination services that are potentially affected both by local farm management and the surrounding landscape. To better understand these different factors, they modelled the relative effects of landscape composition , landscape configuration and farm management, and their interactions, on wild bee abundance and richness for 39 crop systems globally.

We develop a model to evaluate the profitability of controlling rodent damage by placing barn owl nesting boxes in agricultural areas.