Claim · #6495805
Insecta (class) · pollination · Plantae (kingdom)
pollination · effect: beneficial
pollinates GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“fruit set increased significantly with wild insect visitation in all crop systems”
- Source
- Wild Pollinators Enhance Fruit Set of Crops Regardless of Honey Bee Abundance
- Authors
- Garibaldi L.A., Steffan-Dewenter I., Winfree R., Aizen M.A., Bommarco R., Cunningham S.A., Kremen C., Carvalheiro L.G., Harder L.D., et al.
- Year
- 2013
- Publication
- Science
- Page
- 1609
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Garibaldi et al. 2013 (Science) finding on wild-insect fruit-set superiority across 41 crop systems matches this claim verbatim.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Wild insect visitation enhancing fruit set across all 41 crop systems is the headline result of the Garibaldi global synthesis.”
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