Temporal variation in coffee flowering may influence the effects of bee species richness and abundance on coffee production

Agroforestry Systems

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 95-103

  Peters, Valerie E ^a,b   Carroll, C Ronald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Bees; Climate; Phenology; Shade coffee

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AUTOGAMY; BEE; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COFFEE; CROP PRODUCTION; CROP YIELD; FLOWERING; FRUIT SET; OUTCROSSING; PHENOLOGY; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATOR; PRECIPITATION INTENSITY; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SPECIES RICHNESS; TEMPORAL VARIATION; YIELD RESPONSE;

APOIDEA; COFFEA ARABICA;

EID: 84861228527     PISSN: 01674366     EISSN: 15729680     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10457-011-9476-2     Document Type: Article

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