Bee species diversity enhances productivity and stability in a perennial crop.

Wild bees provide important pollination services to agroecoystems, but the mechanisms which underlie their contribution to ecosystem functioning--and, therefore, their importance in maintaining and enhancing these services-remain unclear. We evaluated several mechanisms through which wild bees contr...

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Main Authors: Shelley R Rogers, David R Tarpy, Hannah J Burrack
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4016306?pdf=render