Fruit Tree Pollination Notes:

A few are described as "self-fertile" and are capable of self-pollination, although even those tend to carry larger crops when cross pollinated from a suitable pollenizer. [1]

Inadequate pollination can result from either a lack of pollinators or pollenizers, or from poor pollinating weather at bloom time. [2]

Information from: Fruit Tree Polination - Wikipedia

Cultural Eutrophication Notes: These added nutrients result in excessive growth of plant life. Such an increase in an algae population is known as an algal bloom.

Information from: Cultural Eutrophication - Wikipedia

One response to added amounts of nutrients in the aquatic ecosystem is the rapid growth of microscopic algae, also know as algal bloom. In freshwater systems, the formation of floating algal blooms are commonly nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria (blue-green algae). This outcome is favoured when nitrogen inputs are reduced and phosphorous inputs are increased. [3]

  1. ^ Degrandihoffman, G; Hoopingarner, R; Baker, KK (1985). "The Influence of Honey Bee Sideworking Behavior on Cross-Pollination and Fruit-Set in Apples". HortScience. 20 (3): 397–399.
  2. ^ Sheffield, Cory (10 February 2014). "Pollination, Seed Set and Fruit Quality in Apple: Studies with Osmia Lignaria (Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, Canada". Journal of Pollination Ecology. 12 (13): 120–128.
  3. ^ Schindler, David W.; Hecky, R.E.; Findlay, D.L.; Stainton, M.P.; Parker, B.R.; Paterson, M.J.; Beaty, K.G.; Lyng, M.; Kasian, S. E. M. (August 2008). "Eutrophication of lakes cannot be controlled by reducing nitrogen input: Results of a 37-year whole-ecosystem experiment". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 105 (32): 11254–11258. doi:10.1073/pnas.0805108105.