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Book (stand-alone)Pollination services for sustainable agriculture 2008
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No results found.Pollinators are essential for orchard, horticultural and forage production, as well as the production of seed for many root and fibre crops. Pollinators such as bees, birds and bats affect 35 percent of the world’s crop production, increasing outputs of 87 of the leading food crops worldwide. Food security, food diversity, human nutrition and food prices all rely strongly on animal pollinators. The consequences of pollinator declines are likely to impact the production and costs of vitamin-rich crops like fruits and vegetables, leading to increasingly unbalanced diets and health problems. Maintaining and increasing yields in horticultural crops under agricultural development is critically important to health, nutrition, food security and better farm incomes for poor farmers. In the past, pollination has been provided by nature at no explicit cost to human communities. As farm fields have become larger, and the use of agricultural chemicals has increased, mounting evidence points to a p otentially serious decline in populations of pollinators under agricultural development. -
ArticleChange of bird communities at the larch plantation forests and deciduous forests in Jungwangsan, Korea
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
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No results found.To coping with international convention and treaty relating with biological diversity, and to enhance the public awareness on the effect of forest practice on biodiversity and sustainable forest management in Korea, we evaluated the thinning effect on bird communities at Larch plantation forests (LF, 25.0% thinning at 9ha in size, a.s.l. 1,200m) and deciduous forests (DF, 55.3% thinning at 15.8ha in size, a.s.l. 600m) after two years from 2013 to 2015. Bird communities were surveyed by the combination of point counts (9 points) and line transect methods during breeding and non-breeding seasons with the sounds and observation by binocular and camera. We analyzed the composition of bird communities with nesting and foraging guild. After thinning practice in early spring of 2013, total 15 and 21 birds were recorded in 2013, forty and thirty-one species of birds in 2014, and sixty and forty species of birds in 2015 at the DF and LF, respectively. Data showed that one year took to recover the number of species after thinning at DF sites, and bush-nesting birds such as Winter Wren and Hazel Grouse were increased after thinning at LF sites. At a large forests area in Mt.Jungwangsan, forest practice like a 25.0% thinning at LF and 55.3% thinning at DF sites could not affect the bird community and increase the habitat diversity to attract the forests birds prefer bush and open space in forests areas. These results imply that spatial and temporal arrangement in a landscape approach could be fully considered to maintain and enhance biodiversity in forests. Keywords: Bush-nesters, habitat heterogeneity, Shrub layer, Thinning ID: 3622621 -
InfographicThe pollination services of forests
Forest and landscape interventions and their benefits
2021This infographic is based on a related publication to highlight the importance, at the forest and landscape scales, of employing pollination-friendly management practices. It provided a visually easy-to-retain overview of the publication, with recommendation on measures for maintaining pollinator in forests and landscapes. It aims at raising awareness among stakeholders about the benefits of pollinators and beneficial practices that help to enhance pollination services across agricultural sectors.
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