Linking bees and flowers: How do floral communities structure pollinator communities?

Ecology

Volumn 84, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 2628-2642

  Potts, Simon G ^a,c   Vulliamy, Betsy ^a   Dafni, Amots ^b   Ne'eman, Gidi ^b   Willmer, Pat ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bee diversity; Community structure; Energy partitioning; Fire; Grazing; Mediterranean; Nectar; Nest substrate availability; Pollen

Indexed keywords

BEE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; FIRE; GRAZING; NECTAR; ORDINATION; PLANT COMMUNITY; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION;

MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ANIMALIA; APOIDEA;

EID: 0242722358     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/02-0136     Document Type: Article

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