Noise Affect Crop Pollination Process

Research recently conducted show the process of pollination in plants is not directly affected by the noise of human activity. These human activities include the hustle and bustle of traffic and the hum of the engine.

According to research, boisterous sound that not only affect the animals for pollination or seed spreading pollen in plants. The study also reveals the effect of noise can give ripple (ripple) on the plant.

Studies have been published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B this week revealed the plant experienced a ripple effect that can last up to tens of years, although the noise sound source has been lost. In previous studies, Clinton Francis of the National Science Foundation (NSF) in North Carolina also found some of the animals increase in number near a noisy location.

Researchers conducted a series of experiments from 2007 to 2010 the bureau of wildlife Canyon Wildlife Area in northwestern New Mexico. The area is home to thousands of natural gas wells, there is a compressor that generates noise every day during the year.

Researchers conducted the experiment by placing patches of flowering plants in the area had been estimated as noisy as the traffic noise and the roar of the engine. Then, put another plant in a quiet place.

When the researchers compared the number of pollinator visits in noisy and quiet location, they found one species of hummingbird species of birds visit the area a lot more noisy than quiet. The study concluded, Hummingbird birds prefer a noisy area and make the process of pollination in plants in place.

"Birds Hummingbirds prefer the kind that noise (noise) due to other bird species have been seized their nest," said Francis. This study ultimately reveals the process of plant pollination is more common in areas that are noisy