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A novel application of the Price equation reveals that landscape diversity promotes the response of bees to regionally rare plant species

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Can ants equal honeybees as effective pollinators of the energy cropJatropha curcasL. under Mediterranean conditions?

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Hover flies are efficient pollinators of oilseed rape

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Functional group diversity of bee pollinators increases crop yield

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