Can’t get no pollination
An aging population of New Zealand shrubs may offers the first known
example of the troubles predicted to follow the decline of wild
pollinators, scientists report online in Science February 3. Three kinds of native birds did most of the pollinating for the shrub Rhabdothamnus solandri, explains
Sandra Anderson of the University of Auckland, but two have largely
disappeared from a study area on North Island, part of New Zealand’s
mainland.
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