Bombus terrestris in a mass-flowering pollinator-dependent crop: A mutualistic relationship? (dataset)

Dataset of courgette nectar and pollen, pollinator visitation to courgette flowers and simulation results of B. terrestris colony development in courgette fields. All sites were in the UK. Data were collected to explore the mutualistic relationship between B. terrestris, a common bumblebee visitor to courgette fields in the United Kingdom (Knapp & Osborne 2017), and the mass-flowering crop courgette to ask: (1) How much pollen and nectar do courgette crops provide? (2) Is B. terrestris an effective pollinator (in terms of visitation rate and pollen transfer) of courgette? And (3) how does courgette affect B. terrestris colony development at a landscape scale (using Bumble-BEEHAVE)?The article associated with this dataset is located in ORE at: http://hdl.handle.net/10871/35327This is the dataset used for the Knapp et al. (2018) article "Bombus terrestris in a mass-flowering pollinator-dependent crop: A mutualistic relationship?" published in Ecology and Evolution.Natural Environment Research Council (NE/J014680/1)Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (CP118