Pollination Services for Sustainable Agriculture
Field Manuals

PROTOCOL TO DETECT
AND ASSESS POLLINATION
DEFICITS IN CROPS:
A HANDBOOK FOR ITS USE

Bernard E. Vaissière
Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Avignon, France
Breno M. Freitas
Universidade Federal do Ceará, Fortaleza, Brazil
Barbara Gemmill-Herren
Food and Agiculture Organization of the United Nations, Rome, Italy

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Table of contents

Preface   [764kb]
Introduction

Part I   [951kb]

SECTION 1. Definitions and conceptual framework
SECTION 2. Protocol objective and structure
SECTION 3. General considerations for experimental design and study field selection
SECTION 4. Treatments to var y the level of pollination service

Part II   [392kb]

SECTION 5. Layout of experimental sites
SECTION 6. Pollinator dependent variables and data collection

Part III   [998kb]

SECTION 7. Production dependent variables and sampling units
SECTION 8. Statistical analyses
SECTION 9. General conclusions

References
Annexes