Foraging ranges of solitary bees

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 757-764

  Gathmann, Achim ^a,b   Tscharntke, Teja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Body length; Foraging distance; Habitat structure; Translocation experiments; Trap nests

Indexed keywords

BEE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT STRUCTURE; TRANSLOCATION;

APIDAE; APOIDEA; CHELOSTOMA; HYMENOPTERA; MEGACHILE; OSMIA;

EID: 0036743726     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2656.2002.00641.x     Document Type: Article

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