Mpala Research Centre Discovery Day 2014

1. Pollination in Plant Communities:
Who Does it Best?
Dr Gavin Ballantyne

4. Pollination Crisis
● Threats to pollinators
– Habitat Loss
– Pesticides
– Disease
● Threat to pollinators = threat to
food security
● Kenyan honeybees doing well, but
for how long?
● Understanding of how pollinator
communities operate essential

5. ● Aims of the project:
– Identify which are the key
pollinator species in the
environment
– Determine how vulnerable the
plant community is to
pollinator loss
● Prof Pat Willmer, Dr Katherine
Baldock, Joanna Robins King,
Stephen Ekale Ekuam