Scientists surprised by orchid bee biodiversity near oil palm plantations

Mongabay
Jan 4, 2018, 7:23 pm211 pts
Over the past 10 years many areas of once-forested land degraded by cattle in the Amazon have been converted to oil palm. To measure how the oil palm plantations may affect biodiversity, researchers studied orchid bees in oil palm plantations and patches of secondary forest along rivers in Brazil. To the…

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