Ups and downs in pollinator populations: When is there a decline?

Conservation Ecology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2001, Pages

  Roubik, David Ward ^a,b  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance variability; Bees; Census techniques; Diversity; Enso; Euglossini; Pollinators; Trends; Tropical temperate comparisons

Indexed keywords

APIS; APOIDEA; EUGLOSSINI; ORCHIDACEAE;

EID: 0002276954     PISSN: 11955449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-00255-050102     Document Type: Article

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