Supporting crop pollinators with floral resources: Network-based phenological matching

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 3125-3140

  Russo, Laura ^a   Debarros, Nelson ^b   Yang, Suann ^c   Shea, Katriona ^a   Mortensen, David ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection ^*  (United States)

^c PRESBYTERIAN COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Crop pollination; Ecosystem services; Floral provisioning; Mutualism; Native pollinators; Network theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886999229     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.703     Document Type: Article

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