Caveats to quantifying ecosystem services: Fruit abortion blurs benefits from crop pollination

Ecological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1841-1849

  Bos, Merijn M ^a,b   Veddeler, Dorthe ^a,c   Bogdanski, Anne K ^a   Klein, Alexandra Maria ^a   Tscharntke, Teja ^a   Steffan Dewenter, Ingolf ^a,d   Tylianakis, Jason M ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b STAATLICHES MUSEUM FÜR NATURKUNDE   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bet hedging; Carrying capacity; Ecosystem services; Flower surplus; Fruit maturation; Ovule fertilization; Pollen production; Pollinator decline

Indexed keywords

CARRYING CAPACITY; CROP YIELD; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); FLOWER; FRUIT; HARVESTING; INCENTIVE; NATURE CONSERVATION; POLLINATION; POPULATION DECLINE;

ASIA; BRAZIL; ECUADOR; EURASIA; INDONESIA; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

PASSIFLORA EDULIS; THEOBROMA CACAO;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; BRAZIL; CACAO; COFFEE; CROP; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FRUIT; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; INDONESIA; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TROPIC CLIMATE;

ANIMALS; BEES; BRAZIL; CACAO; COFFEE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ECOSYSTEM; ECUADOR; FRUIT; HUMANS; INDONESIA; POLLEN; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TROPICAL CLIMATE;

EID: 38449110684     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1763.1     Document Type: Article

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