Local management and landscape drivers of pollination and biological control services in a Kenyan agro-ecosystem

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2424-2431

  Otieno, Mark ^a   Woodcock, Ben A ^b   Wilby, Andrew ^c   Vogiatzakis, Ioannis N ^e,f   Mauchline, Alice L ^a   Gikungu, Mary W ^d   Potts, Simon G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Zoology Department   (Kenya)

^e OPEN UNIVERSITY OF CYPRUS   (Cyprus)

^f NONE   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Bio control; Farm management; Fruit set; Landscape context; Pollination; The developing world

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; ALTERNATIVE AGRICULTURE; ARTHROPOD; BIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; CROP PEST; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; DEVELOPING WORLD; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FLOWERING; FRUIT SET; LEGUME; NATURAL ENEMY; PESTICIDE APPLICATION; POLLINATION;

EASTERN PROVINCE [KENYA]; KENYA; KIBWEZI;

ARTHROPODA; CAJANUS CAJAN; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84860389239     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.06.013     Document Type: Article

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