Native bees mediate long-distance pollen dispersal in a shade coffee landscape mosaic

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 31, 2010, Pages 13760-13764

  Jha, Shalene ^a,b   Dick, Christopher W ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Agriculture; Fragmentation; Gene flow; Pollination; Tropical ecology

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEE; COFFEE; FERTILITY; FOREST; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIABILITY; MICONIA AFFINIS; NONHUMAN; PATERNITY; PLANT REPRODUCTION; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREE; TREE GROWTH; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; MELASTOMATACEAE; MEXICO; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLEN;

APOIDEA; MICONIA AFFINIS;

ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COFFEE; GENETIC VARIATION; MELASTOMATACEAE; MEXICO; POLLEN;

EID: 77956356139     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1002490107     Document Type: Article

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