Diurnal effectiveness of pollination by bees and flies in agricultural Brassica rapa: Implications for ecosystem resilience

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 20-27

  Rader, Romina ^a,b   Edwards, Will ^b   Westcott, David A ^b,c   Cunningham, Saul A ^c   Howlett, Bradley G ^a  

^a THE NEW ZEALAND INSTITUTE FOR PLANT AND FOOD RESEARCH LIMITED   (New Zealand)

^b JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complementarity; Daily activity; Diptera; Ecosystem services; Hymenoptera; Insect; Insurance; Mass flowering crop; Stability; Temporal activity; Unmanaged

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; BRASSICA RAPA; DIPTERA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 84873522520     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2012.10.011     Document Type: Article

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