Pollinators help one-third of world's crop production, says new study

Pollinators such as bees, birds and bats affect 35 percent of the world's crop production, increasing the output of 87 of the leading food crops worldwide, finds a new study published today (Wednesday, Oct. 25), in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences and co-authored by a conservation biologist at the University of California, Berkeley.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news81014022.html">Pollinators help one-third of world's crop production, says new study</a></p> <p>Pollinators such as bees, birds and bats affect 35 percent of the world's crop production, increasing the output of 87 of the leading food crops worldwide, finds a new study published today (Wednesday, Oct. 25), in the <i>Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences</i> and co-authored by a conservation biologist at the University of California, Berkeley.</p>