Mason bees and honey bees synergistically enhance fruit set in sweet cherry orchards
Abstract Mason bees (Osmia spp.) are efficient fruit tree pollinators that can be encouraged to occupy and breed in artificial nesting material. In sweet cherry orchards, they are occasionally used as an alternative managed pollinator as a replacement for or in addition to honey bees (Apis mellifera...
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| Main Authors: | Julia Osterman, Frances Benton, Sara Hellström, Meike Luderer‐Pflimpfl, Ann‐Kathrin Pöpel‐Eisenbrandt, Bilyana Stoykova Wild, Panagiotis Theodorou, Christin Ulbricht, Robert J. Paxton |
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley
2023-07-01
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| Series: | Ecology and Evolution |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.10289 |
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