The effect of food supplementation on reproductive success in bumblebee field colonies

Oikos

Volumn 103, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 688-694

  Pelletier, Luc ^a,b   McNeil, Jeremy N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b NONE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD SUPPLEMENTATION; PARASITISM; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEX RATIO;

APIDAE; APOIDEA; BOMBUS IMPATIENS; BOMBUS TERNARIUS; BRACHICOMA DEVIA; DEVIA; DIPTERA; FANNIA CANICULARIS; FANNIIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; IMPATIENS; INVERTEBRATA; LEPIDOPTERA; PSITHYRUS; PYRALIDAE; SARCOPHAGIDAE; VITULA; VITULA EDMANDSAE;

EID: 0344152946     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-0706.2003.12592.x     Document Type: Article

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