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Wildflower Seed Sales as Incentive for Adopting Flower Strips for Native Bee Conservation: A Cost-Benefit Analysis

机译：野花种子销售作为采用天然蜜蜂保护的花条的激励：成本效益分析

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Improving pollinator habitat on farmlands is needed to further wild bee conservation and to sustain crop pollination in light of relationships between global declines in pollinators and reductions in floral resources. One management strategy gaining much attention is the use of wildflower strips planted alongside crops to provide supplemental floral resources for pollinators. However, farmer adoption of pollinator-friendly strategies has been minimal, likely due to uncertainty about costs and benefits of providing non-crop flowering plants for bees. Over 3 yr, on four diversified farms in Montana, United States, we estimated the potential economic profit of harvesting and selling wildflower seeds collected from flower strips implemented for wild bee conservation, as an incentive for farmers to adopt this management practice. We compared the potential profitability of selling small retail seed packets versus bulk wholesale seed. Our economic analyses indicated that potential revenue from retail seed sales exceeded the costs associated with establishing and maintaining wildflower strips after the second growing season. A wholesale approach, in contrast, resulted in considerable net economic losses. We provide proof-of-concept that, under retail scenarios, the sale of native wildflower seeds may provide an alternative economic benefit that, to our knowledge, remains unexplored. The retail seed-sales approach could encourage greater farmer adoption of wildflower strips as a pollinator-conservation strategy in agroecosystems. The approach could also fill a need for regionally produced, native wildflower seed for habitat restoration and landscaping aimed at conserving native plants and pollinators.
机译：需要改善农田的垃圾植物栖息地，以进一步野生蜜蜂保护，并根据全球污染者下降与花卉资源减少的关系，维持作物授粉。一种管理策略越来越多的关注是使用野花条种植的野花条，为粉丝器提供补充花卉资源。然而，农民采用粉丝们的友好策略一直很少，这可能是由于对蜜蜂提供非作物开花植物的成本和益处的不确定性。超过3年，在美国蒙大拿州的四个多样化的农场，我们估计了从为野生蜜蜂保护所实施的花条收集和销售收集的野花种子的潜在经济利润，作为农民采用这一管理实践的激励。比较了销售小型零售种子包的潜在盈利能力与散装批发种子。我们的经济分析表明，零售种子销售的潜在收入超过了与建立和维护第二个生长季节之后的野花条带的成本。相比之下，批发方法导致了相当大的净经济损失。我们提供概念证明，在零售场景下，原生野花种子的销售可能会提供替代经济效益，以至于我们的知识仍未开发。零售种子销售方式可以鼓励大农民采用野花条作为农业系统的粉丝保护策略。该方法还可以填补栖息地恢复和景观的地区生产的天然野花种子，旨在保护天然植物和粉刷者。

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