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ARS Home Pacific West Area Tucson, Arizona Carl Hayden Bee Research Center Research Grand Challenge Synergy Project





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- Cold Storage Overview
- Why put colonies in cold storage to overwinter?
- When to put colonies in cold storage?
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- Cold Storage Overwintering Tool
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- Objective 1: Climate effects on bloom and floral rewards
- Objective 2. Landscape level nutrition models
- Objective 3: Determine pollinator number, diversity and pathogen load
- Objective 4: Develop a management plan for overwintering colonies in cold storage
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- Objective 1: Climate effects on bloom and floral rewards
- Objective 2. Landscape level nutrition models
- Objective 3: Determine pollinator number, diversity and pathogen load
- Objective 4: Develop a management plan for overwintering colonies in cold storage
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Overviewheadline bar The Grand Challenge Synergy Project:Creating pollinator landscapes and overwintering practices to increase pollinator populations in a changing climate.  Goals: Address high-order problem of national importance
Integrate multiple existing projects
Build collaborations to create something more than the sum of its parts
Cut across National Programs, Agencies, Universities, and private sector
10 CRIS Projects, 4 National Programs, 4 Universities, and 4 private businesses  /ARSUserFiles/20220500/images/Slide1.JPG


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