Claim · #6495970
Musa spp. · provides refuge · Cecidomyiidae (family)
provides refuge · effect: beneficial
interactsWith GloBI relation
Verbatim source quote
“fivefold increase in the density of banana/plantain clusters intercropped with cocoa”
- Authors
- Brooker R.W., Bennett A.E., Cong W.-F., Daniell T.J., George T.S., Hallett P.D., Hawes C., Iannetta P.P.M., Jones H.G., Karley A.J., Li L., McKenzie B.M., Pakeman R.J., Paterson E., Schob C., Shen J., Squire G., Watson C.A., Zhang C., Zhang F., Zhang J., White P.J.
- Year
- 2015
- Publication
- New Phytologist
AI critic verdicts
- agroecologist · plausible
“Banana clusters provide humid breeding microhabitat for cocoa-pollinating midges; refuge/attractor framing aligns with shade-cocoa ecology.”
- entomologist · plausible
“Cecidomyiidae/Ceratopogonid pollinators of cocoa breed in moist litter; banana cluster density correlates with midge density.”
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