“With this research, we show that there are also fewer and fewer plants dependent on those insects for pollination,” said ecologist Kaixuan Pan, a doctoral student at Leiden University, where he studies the mechanisms for how land use and climate change affect biodiversity, and how to sustain biodiversity, especially in human-modified landscapes.
Of course, this is not a surprise for many of us since it has been widely reported for decades that insect populations around the world have been declining.
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