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ArticleBiology letters2019

Pollinator effectiveness and importance between female and male mining bee (

Ju Tang, Qiu-Mei Quan, Jing-Zhu Chen, Ting Wu, Shuang-Quan Huang

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Article in Biology letters, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Virus distributions in wild bees are associated with floral communities at local to landscape scales.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ju TangInstitute of Evolution and Ecology, School of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, People's Republic of China.
Qiu-Mei QuanCollege of Environmental Science and Engineering, China West Normal University, Nanchong 637002, People's Republic of China.
Jing-Zhu ChenCollege of Environmental Science and Engineering, China West Normal University, Nanchong 637002, People's Republic of China.
Ting WuInstitute of Evolution and Ecology, School of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, People's Republic of China.
Shuang-Quan HuangInstitute of Evolution and Ecology, School of Life Sciences, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079, People's Republic of China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bees are often considered to be effective pollinators in both agricultural and natural ecosystems but could be ineffective pollinators in that they collect large quantities of pollen for food provision but deliver little to stigmas. Male bees do not collect pollen to feed larvae, and their pollination role has been underappreciated. Here we compare pollination effectiveness, visit frequency and pollen foraging behaviour between female and male individuals of a mining bee,

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EcosystemPollinationAnimalsBeesFemaleFlowersMalePollenSeasonsefficient pollinatorEpimedium pubescensforaging behaviourmale beepollen removal and depositionsolitary bee

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PMID31662065
PMCPMC6832193

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