Claim · model-written summary
The authors recommend conserving melliferous habitats and enriching woody species.
- Taxon
- melliferous woody florat0
- Outcome
- integrated landscape management combining conservation of melliferous habitats with targeted enrichment of woody speciese0
- Setting
- West Africae0
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Verbatim
e0“integrated landscape management combining conservation of melliferous habitats with targeted enrichment of woody species to sustain pollination services and beekeeping productivity in West Africa”
t0“Melliferous Woody Flora”
Title
Issaka Wendpanga Kanazoe; Issa Nombré; Adama Zoungrana; et al. Ecology and Evolution 2026. doi:10.1002/ece3.73555
Other claims from this paper (14)
- Observation The survey recorded 48 woody melliferous species from 16 families.
- Observation Fabaceae, Combretaceae and Sapotaceae dominated.
- Association Species composition differed significantly among land-use types.
- Association Fallow land and protected area had the highest melliferous richness.
- Association Farmland had reduced richness and density.
- Association Farmland had larger individual trees.
- Observation Vitellaria paradoxa dominated every land-use type.
- Observation Indicator analysis identified 19 significant melliferous species.
- Association Three named species indicated fallow land and protected area.
- Observation No indicator species was specific to farmland.
- Association Protected area had the highest tree density and greater evenness.
- Association Flowering timing varied among land uses.
- Observation Protected area supplied forage for at least three months.
- Observation Mitragyna inermis flowered for up to five months.