| Budget Amount *help |
¥16,380,000 (Direct Cost: ¥12,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥3,780,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥5,330,000 (Direct Cost: ¥4,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,230,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥6,760,000 (Direct Cost: ¥5,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,560,000)
Fiscal Year 2012: ¥4,290,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥990,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
The aims of this project is 1) to investigate biodiversity and geographical distribution of wild bees pollinating semi-desert plants in Asian arid areas; 2) to observe nesting habits and pollinating biology of wild bees and 3) to propose a recommendation for conservation of useful insects based on the field studies. Three surveys in Kyrgyzstan and one in Uzbekistan were conducted. We collected about 4,000 bee specimens and studied visiting plans and nesting habits of bees. We found there is a few grassland in mountainous areas in Kyrgyzstan and overgrazing accelerated decrease in biodiversity, both in flowering plants and wild bees. We observed that it proceed to semi-desertification from deterioration in soil and land degradation. We constructed and opened to the public three databases, specimen, image and DNA barcode files based on our Central Asian bee Collection. We also published a book which was introduced outline of this project.
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