OSU helps establish roadmap for filling the gaps in forest pollinator research

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An international collaboration, led by Jim Rivers of Oregon State University, has established a roadmap for future research aimed at better understanding the role that managed conifer forests in temperate zones play for the conservation of pollinators such as bees, wasps, flies, beetles and butterflies. “Temperate forests comprise a large portion of the world’s land base and to date we haven’t really thought about them much in terms of habitat for pollinators,” Rivers said.