Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance

A. Garibaldi, Lucas; Steffan‐Dewenter, Ingolf; Winfree, Rachael; A. Aizen, Marcelo; Bommarco, Riccardo; A. Cunningham, Saul; Kremen, Claire; G. Carvalheiro, Luísa; D. Harder, Lawrence; Afik, Ohad; Bartomeus, Ígnasi; Benjamin, Faye; Boreux, Virginie; P. Cariveau, Daniel; P. Chacoff, Natacha; Dudenhöffer, Jan‐Hendrik; Magalhães Freitas, Breno; Ghazoul, Jaboury; S. Greenleaf, Sarah; Hipólito, Juliana; Holzschuh, Andrea; G. Howlett, Brad; Isaacs, Rufus; K. Javorek, Steven; M. Kennedy, Christina; M. Krewenka, Kristin; Krishnan, Smitha; Mandelik, Yael; M. Mayfield, Margaret; Motzke, Iris; Munyuli, Théodore; A. Nault, Brian; Otieno, Mark; D. Petersen, Jessica; Pisanty, Gideon; G. Potts, Simon; Rader, Romina; H. Ricketts, Taylor; Rundlöf, Maj; L. Seymour, Colleen; Schüepp, Christof; Szentgyörgyi, Hajnalka; Taki, Hisatomo; Tscharntke, Teja; Vergara, Carlos; Felipe Viana, Blandina; Cherico Wanger, Thomas; Westphal, Catrin; M. Williams, Neal; Klein, Alexandra‐Maria

doi:10.1126/science.1230200

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Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance

Published in Science • Mar 1, 2013

Authors:

Lucas A. Garibaldi

Ingolf Steffan‐Dewenter

Rachael Winfree

Abstract

Honeybees Can't Do It Alone The majority of food crops require pollination to set fruit with the honeybee providing a pollination workhorse, with both feral and managed populations an integral component of crop management (see the Perspective by Tylianakis , published online 28 February). Garibaldi ...

Subject

Pollinator

Pollination

Biology

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