Orchid bees as bio-indicators for organic coffee farms in Costa Rica: Does farm size affect their abundance?
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| Format: | artículo original |
| Status: | Versión publicada |
| Publikationsdatum: | 2006 |
| Beschreibung: | The potential of Euglossini bees, especially Euglossa, as biological indicators of organic vs non organic coffee farms was studied in Atenas and San Isidro, Alajuela, Costa Rica using 1.8-cineole as lure. Observations were made for three days at each of four farms and complemented with data from a year of obsevations. Orchid bees were in greater abundance in the organic farms (t-Student test). However, lower abundances suggest that an organic farm may be negatively affected by the proximity of non-organic farms, depending on its size and distance. Orchid bees may be indicators of organic coffee farms. |
| Land: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Institution: | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| Repositorio: | Portal de Revistas UCR |
| Sprache: | Inglés Español |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/14075 |
| Online Zugang: | https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/rbt/article/view/14075 |