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- Title
Tea breaks: how flower visitors can benefit from unplanned floral buffer strips in a Tanzanian tea plantation.
- Authors
Norfolk, Olivia; Sadiki, Lotha Laisser; Broughton, Brittanie; Otieno, Mark; Nuttman, Clive
- Abstract
The article presents a study on the benefits of floral buffer strips on flower insects in a tea plantation in Tanzania. It states that the study was conducted in the Amani Nature Reserve wherein transects were surveyed at randomly selected sites. The study shows the most abundant orders of insects in the plantation including Diptera, Lepidoptera, and Orthoptera. It indicates the potential of a cost-neutral conservation method in the plantation.
- Subjects
INSECTS; TEA plantations; STATISTICAL sampling; ORTHOPTERA; DIPTERA; LEPIDOPTERA; AMANI Nature Reserve (Tanzania)
- Publication
African Journal of Ecology, 2013, Vol 51, Issue 2, p380
- ISSN
0141-6707
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/aje.12039