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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2018

The worldwide importance of honey bees as pollinators in natural habitats.

Keng-Lou James Hung, Jennifer M Kingston, Matthias Albrecht, David A Holway, Joshua R Kohn

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 241 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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241citing papers in PubMed, 3 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

241 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Keng-Lou James HungSection of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0116, USA kenglou.hung@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-1557-3958
Jennifer M KingstonSection of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0116, USA.
Matthias AlbrechtAgroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Reckenholzstrasse 191, CH-8046, Zürich, Switzerland.
David A HolwaySection of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0116, USA.
Joshua R KohnSection of Ecology, Behavior and Evolution, Division of Biological Sciences, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0116, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The western honey bee (

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EcosystemPollinationAnimalsBeesBehavior, AnimalCrops, AgriculturalDatasets as TopicFlowersHoneyPollenRegression AnalysisApis melliferafloral visitationmeta-analysisplant–pollinator networkpollinationpollination effectiveness

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PMID29321298
PMCPMC5784195

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