Managed bumblebees outperform honeybees in increasing peach fruit set in China: Different limiting processes with different pollinators

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Zhang, Hong ^a   Huang, Jiaxing ^a   Williams, Paul H ^a,b   Vaissière, Bernard E ^c   Zhou, Zhiyong ^a   Gai, Qinbao ^a   Dong, Jie ^a   An, Jiandong ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; ARTICLE; BOMBUS PATAGIATUS; BUMBLEBEE; CHINA; FERTILIZATION; FLOWER; FRUIT DEVELOPMENT; FRUIT GROWTH; FRUIT SET; GREENHOUSE; HONEYBEE; NONHUMAN; OVARY DEVELOPMENT; PEACH; PISTIL STIGMA; POLLEN TUBE GROWTH; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES INTRODUCTION; ANIMAL; BEE; CLASSIFICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PRUNUS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; BOMBUS PATAGIATUS; PRUNUS PERSICA;

ANIMALS; BEES; POLLINATION; PRUNUS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84925834902     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121143     Document Type: Article

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