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Many insect species provide essential pollination services. However, the amount of pollen deposited onto a stigma when visiting a flower ('single visi...
Read moreTo help evaluate the worth of alternative pollinators in agriculture, we present a theoretical framework for comparing the effectiveness of two or mor...
Read moreAspects of the flowering biology of wild cashew A. occidentale, an andromonoecious, self-fertile tree, were investigated in north-east Brazil, where t...
Read moreIt is important to understand the pollination processes that generate landscape-scale gene dispersal in plants, particularly in crop plants with genet...
Read moreIn a cocoa plantation in Costa Rica, T. jaty was a common visitor to the flowers; on 70% of observed visits, the bees collected pollen. However, fruit...
Read moreThe viability of fruit pollen carried on the body hairs of insects collected in apple orchards was usually similar to that of pollen from freshly dehi...
Read moreForaging by honey bees was studied in 1988 and 1989 in an orchard containing 5 cross-pollinating varieties of almond (Prunus dulcis). Every foraging h...
Read moreInterest in pollen-borne gene dispersal has grown with the cultivation of genetically modified plants. To date, both experimental data and models of o...
Read moreAnalyses of flower-visitor interaction networks allow application of community-level information to conservation problems, but management recommendati...
Read moreProtected areas fall far short of securing the space needed to sustain biodiversity and ecosystem function at a global scale and in the face of climat...
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