Organic farming and landscape structure: Effects on insect-pollinated plant diversity in intensively managed grasslands

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Power, Eileen F ^a   Kelly, Daniel L ^a   Stout, Jane C ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEE; CROP PRODUCTION; GRASSLAND; HABITAT; IRELAND; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; ORGANIC FARMING; PLANT COMMUNITY; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; SPECIES RICHNESS; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; DAIRYING; ECOSYSTEM; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INSECT; PHYSIOLOGY; POACEAE;

APOIDEA; HEXAPODA;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; DAIRYING; ECOSYSTEM; INSECTS; ORGANIC AGRICULTURE; POACEAE; POLLINATION;

EID: 84861650376     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038073     Document Type: Article

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