Pollinator sharing between mass-flowering oilseed rape and co-flowering wild plants: implications for wild plant pollination

Plant Ecology

Volumn 215, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 315-325

  Stanley, Dara A ^a,b   Stout, Jane C ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Brassica napus; canola; Field margins; Hedgerows; Pollen transfer; Pollination services; Spill over; Wild bees

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893158071     PISSN: 13850237     EISSN: 15735052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11258-014-0301-7     Document Type: Article

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