Are forests potential landscape barriers for foraging bumblebees? Landscape scale experiments with Bombus terrestris agg. and Bombus pascuorum (Hymenoptera, Apidae)

Biological Conservation

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 111-118

  Kreyer, Daria ^a   Oed, Alexander ^a   Walther Hellwig, Kerstin ^b   Frankl, Robert ^a  

^a PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Foraging behaviour; Habitat fragmentation; Home range; Pollen flow; Pollinator movement

Indexed keywords

BEE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; NATURAL BARRIER; POLLINATOR;

APIDAE; BOMBUS PASCUORUM; BOMBUS TERRESTRIS; BRASSICA; BRASSICA NAPUS; HELIANTHUS; HELIANTHUS ANNUUS; HYMENOPTERA; INSECTA; PHACELIA; PHACELIA TANACETIFOLIA; SINAPIS ARVENSIS;

EID: 0346463281     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3207(03)00182-4     Document Type: Article

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