Bio-based production systems: why environmental assessment needs to include supporting systems

A Nicolaidis Lindqvist, S Broberg, L Tufvesson, S Khalil… - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
The transition to a bio-based economy is expected to deliver substantial environmental and
economic benefits. However, bio-based production systems still come with significant …

Agricultural specialisation increases the vulnerability of pollination services for smallholder farmers

TP Timberlake, AR Cirtwill, S Sapkota… - Journal of Applied …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Smallholder farms make up 84% of all farms worldwide and feed 2 billion people. These
farms are heavily reliant on ecosystem services and vulnerable to environmental change …

Forest proximity and lowland mosaic increase robustness of tropical pollination networks in mixed fruit orchards

T Sritongchuay, AC Hughes, J Memmott… - Landscape and Urban …, 2019 - Elsevier
More than 30% of global crop plants rely on pollinators to set fruit or seed. While several
studies have documented the negative effects of habitat degradation and distance from …

Effects of local farm management on wild bees through temporal and spatial spillovers: evidence from Southern India

L Steinhübel, A Wenzel, P Hulamani… - Landscape …, 2022 - Springer
Context The agricultural landscape in many low-and middle-income countries is
characterized by smallholder management systems, often dependent on ecosystem …

Integrating remote sensing and machine learning for regional-scale habitat mapping: advances and future challenges for desert locust monitoring

K Rhodes, V Sagan - IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Increased access to reliable data and computationally efficient systems has created more
collaborative potential between remote sensing and machine learning for species habitat …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the landscape scale influences of tree cover on crop yield in an agroforestry parkland using satellite data and spatial statistics

M Karlson, D Bolin, HR Bazié, AS Ouedraogo… - Journal of Arid …, 2023 - Elsevier
Trees in agroforestry parklands influence crops both through competitive and facilitative
mechanism, but the effects are challenging to disentangle due to the complexity of the …

[HTML][HTML] Cross scale spatial and temporal indicators for measuring the effects of landscape heterogeneity on pollination service

I Petrosillo, MV Marinelli, G Zurlini, D Valente - Ecological Indicators, 2022 - Elsevier
Spatial heterogeneity as well as landscape services' provision are a function of spatio-
temporal scales, therefore, pattern–process relationships must be assessed at the multiple …

An opto-electronic sensor-ring to detect arthropods of significantly different body sizes

E Balla, N Flórián, V Gergócs, L Gránicz, F Tóth… - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Arthropods, including pollinators and pests, have high positive and negative impacts on
human well-being and the economy, and there is an increasing need to monitor their activity …

[HTML][HTML] Sacred church forests as sources of wild pollinators for the surrounding smallholder agricultural farms in Lake Tana Basin, Ethiopia

TM Sitotaw, L Willemen, DT Meshesha, A Nelson - Ecological Indicators, 2022 - Elsevier
Remnant natural forests act as a source of wild pollinators that are potentially relevant for
crop pollination for sustaining the food production system of smallholder farms. In the …

The effect of annual flower strips on pollinator visitation and fruit set of avocado (Persea americana Mill.) in Kenya

NK Toukem, T Dubois, SA Mohamed… - Arthropod-Plant …, 2023 - Springer
Wildflower strips are increasingly promoted in pollinator conservation schemes to maintain
the stability of ecosystem services and increase crop yield. Yet, the increased area of …