Buzzing decline: Dutch landscape is losing insect-pollinated plants

TY - UNPB

T1 - Buzzing decline

T2 - Dutch landscape is losing insect-pollinated plants

AU - Rienks, Froukje

PY - 2024/4/24

Y1 - 2024/4/24

N2 - The Dutch landscape is losing plant species that rely on pollination by insects, while plants pollinated by wind are proportionally increasing. Leiden environmental scientist Kaixuan Pan demonstrates this after analysing 87 years of measurements from over 365,000 plots. The news is alarming for our biodiversity and food security. "75% of our crops and 90% of wild plants rely on insects."

AB - The Dutch landscape is losing plant species that rely on pollination by insects, while plants pollinated by wind are proportionally increasing. Leiden environmental scientist Kaixuan Pan demonstrates this after analysing 87 years of measurements from over 365,000 plots. The news is alarming for our biodiversity and food security. "75% of our crops and 90% of wild plants rely on insects."

M3 - Web article

BT - Buzzing decline

PB - Nature Today

ER -