University of Kansas: Deforestation Harms Biodiversity of the Amazon's Perfume-Loving Orchid Bees
April 12, 2024
April 12, 2024
LAWRENCE, Kansas, April 12 (TNSres) -- The University of Kansas issued the following news:
A survey of orchid bees in the Brazilian Amazon state of Rondonia, carried out in the 1990s, is shedding new light the impact of deforestation on the scent-collecting pollinators, which some view as bellwethers of biodiversity in the neotropics.
The findings, from a researcher at the University of Kansas, are published today in the peer-reviewed journal Biological Conservation.
A survey of orchid bees in the Brazilian Amazon state of Rondonia, carried out in the 1990s, is shedding new light the impact of deforestation on the scent-collecting pollinators, which some view as bellwethers of biodiversity in the neotropics.
The findings, from a researcher at the University of Kansas, are published today in the peer-reviewed journal Biological Conservation.