Ecological Archives A023-094-A2

Anikó Kovács-Hostyánszki, Sebastian Haenke, Péter Batáry, Birgit Jauker, András Báldi, Teja Tscharntke, Andrea Holzschuh. 2013. Contrasting effects of mass-flowering crops on bee pollination of hedge plants at different spatial and temporal scales. Ecological Applications 23:1938–1946. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/12-2012.1

Appendix B. Dependent and explanatory variables of the ANCOVAs in the analyses of the two distinct data sets.

Data set

Dependent variables

 

Explanatory variables of the ANCOVAs

Pantraps

 

 

 

May

 

 

 

Bumble bee species richness

 

OSR% - proportion of oilseed rape in 1000 m radius

 

Other wild bee species richness

 

Adjacent crop - oilseed rape vs. cereal

 

Bumble bee abundance

 

Habitat type - forest edge vs. connected hedge vs. isolated hedge

 

Other wild bee abundance

 

Total flower abundance - number of herb flowers along the 200 m transect

 

June

 

 

 

Bumble bee species richness

 

 

 

Other wild bee species richness

 

 

 

Bumble bee abundance

 

 

 

Other wild bee abundance

 

 

Pollination success

 

 

 

Hawthorn

 

OSR% - proportion of oilseed rape in 1000 m radius

 

Fruit set

 

Adjacent crop - oilseed rape vs. cereal

 

Fruit mass

 

Habitat type - forest edge vs. connected hedge vs. isolated hedge

 

Seed number/fruit

 

Total flower abundance - number of herb flowers along the 200 m transect

 

Hip

 

Conspecific flower abundance (patch) - abundance of conspecific flowers in the observation patch

 

Fruit set

 

 

 

Fruit mass

 

 

 

Seed number/fruit

 

 

 

Aborted seed number/fruit

 

 


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