Biodiversity ensures plant-pollinator phenological synchrony against climate change

Ecology Letters

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1331-1338

  Bartomeus, Ignasi ^a,b   Park, Mia G ^c   Gibbs, Jason ^c,d   Danforth, Bryan N ^c   Lakso, Alan N ^c   Winfree, Rachael ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bees; Crop pollination; Ecosystem function; Ecosystem services; Phenology; Pollination; Response diversity; Stabilising mechanism

Indexed keywords

APOIDEA; MALUS X DOMESTICA;

ANIMAL; BEE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CROP POLLINATION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; LETTER; MALUS; PHENOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; RESPONSE DIVERSITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STABILISING MECHANISM;

BEES; CROP POLLINATION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; PHENOLOGY; POLLINATION; RESPONSE DIVERSITY; STABILISING MECHANISM;

ANIMALS; BEES; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; MALUS; POLLINATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84885960861     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ele.12170     Document Type: Article

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