Crop Yields Hold Steady Though Pollinators Decline Pollinators
such as bees are in serious decline, but agriculture that
depends on them hasnít been affected on a global scale ó at
least not yet. Using more than four decades of crop-yield data,
postdoctoral researcher Alexandra Klein compared crops that
require pollinators with those that donít. Surprisingly, she
found that yields for both crop types have gone up consistently.
But Klein says her findings donít necessarily mean thereís no
pollination crisis; farmers may simply be adapting to the
problem, at least for now.