Organic dairy farming: impacts on insect-flower interaction networks and pollination
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Organic dairy farming: impacts on insect–flower interaction networks and pollination
1. Pollination interactions comprise a network of connections between flowers and insect visitors. They are crucial for reproductive success in many angiosperms but are threatened by intensive agricultural practices. Although less intensive approaches, including organic farming, could improve farmland biodiversity, it is not clear whether or not these approaches enhance wild plant pollination a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Applied Ecology
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0021-8901
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2664.2010.01949.x