Landscape diversity moderates the effects of bee visitation frequency to flowers on crop production

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1347-1356

  Petersen, Jessica D ^a   Nault, Brian A ^a  

^a School of Integrative Plant Science College of Agriculture and Life Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Agroecosystems; Bumblebees; Conditional process modelling; Crop pollination; Cucurbita pepo; Ecosystem services; Grassland; Honeybees; Pumpkin

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; BOMBUS IMPATIENS; CUCURBITA; CUCURBITA PEPO;

EID: 84925338209     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: 13652664     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1365-2664.12287     Document Type: Article

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