Novel pollen analogue technique shows bumblebees display low floral constancy and prefer sites with high floral diversity
Context There have been dramatic global declines in pollinating insects. A common land management intervention to support wild pollinators is to plant non-crop flowering plants (‘pollinator planting’). However, there are limited data on which species or spatial arrangement of planting provide maximu...
Main Authors: | Martínez-Bauer, AE, Chadwick, FJ, Westmoreland, AJ, Lander, TA |
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Format: | Journal article |
Language: | English |
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Springer
2021
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