Contrasting effects of mass-flowering crops on bee pollination of hedge plants at different spatial and temporal scales

Ecological Applications

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1938-1946

  Kovács Hostyánszki, Anikó ^a,b   Haenke, Sebastian ^b   Batáry, Péter ^b,c   Jauker, Birgit ^d   Báldi, András ^a   Tscharntke, Teja ^b   Holzschuh, Andrea ^b,e  

^a MTA ÖK Lendület Ecosystem Services Research Group   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^d JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bombus spp.; Brassica napus; Bumble bee; Canola; Crataegus spp.; Dog rose; Ecosystem services; Fruit set; Germany; G ttingen; Hawthorn; Isolation; Oilseed rape; Rosa canina; Scale dependency

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEE; CANOLA; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FRUIT SET; HABITAT TYPE; HERB; LANDSCAPE; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION; SHRUB; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WILD POPULATION;

GERMANY; SAXONY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; CRATAEGUS; CROP; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; RAPESEED; ROSE; TIME;

ANIMALS; BEES; BRASSICA NAPUS; CRATAEGUS; CROPS, AGRICULTURAL; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; ROSA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84891280855     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-2012.1     Document Type: Article

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