Insect pollination enhances seed yield, quality, and market value in oilseed rape

Oecologia

Volumn 169, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1025-1032

  Bommarco, Riccardo ^a   Marini, Lorenzo ^a,b   Vaissière, Bernard E ^c  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale   (France)

Author keywords

Brassica napus; Crop pollination; Honey bee; Hoverflies; Landscape heterogeneity

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; VEGETABLE OIL;

ABUNDANCE; CHLOROPHYLL; CROP YIELD; HERB; HETEROGENEITY; HONEYBEE; INSECT; LANDSCAPE; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION; SEED; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CROP; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEM; FLOWER; INSECT; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PLANT SEED; POLLINATION; RAPESEED; WIND;

ANIMALS; BEES; BIODIVERSITY; BRASSICA NAPUS; CHLOROPHYLL; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; ECOSYSTEM; FLOWERS; INSECTS; PLANT OILS; POLLINATION; SEEDS; WIND;

APIS MELLIFERA; BRASSICA NAPUS; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84864287060     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-012-2271-6     Document Type: Article

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