Nutritional resources for pollinators from mass-flowering crop cultivars

The scarcity of flowers to provide dietary nectar and pollen is a key driver of recent declines in pollinators in agricultural areas, but the planting of mass-flowering crops enhances resources available to pollinators during parts of the year. This thesis investigates the nutritional resources prov...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carruthers, Jonathan Michael
Published: University of Newcastle upon Tyne 2017
Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.728320