Federal Office for Agriculture

Global pollinator declines: trends, impacts and drivers

Declines of managed honey bees and beekeepers in Europe

Growing evidence indicates that European managed honey bees are in decline, but information for Europe remains patchy and localized. Here we compile data from 18 European countr...

Estimating the Density of Honeybee Colonies across Their Natural Range to Fill the Gap in Pollinator Decline Censuses

Abstract: Although pollinator declines are a global biodiversity threat, the demography of the western honeybee ( Apis mellifera ) has not been considered by conservationists be...

Grassland yield declined by a quarter in 5 years of free‐air ozone fumigation

Abstract The sensitivity of seminatural grasslands to ozone (O 3 ) pollution is not well known, in spite of the important function of these common ecosystems for agriculture and...