Floral resource use and interactions between Apis mellifera and native bees in cucurbit crops in Yucatán, México

Canadian Entomologist

Volumn 137, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 441-449

  Pinkus Rendon, Miguel Angel ^a   Parra Tabla, Victor ^a   Meléndez Ramírez, Virginia ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE YUCATÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEE; FLOWER VISITING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; INTRODUCED SPECIES; NATIVE SPECIES; NICHE OVERLAP; POLLINATION; RESOURCE USE;

MEXICO [NORTH AMERICA]; NORTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD; YUCATAN;

APIDAE; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; CITRULLUS LANATUS; CITRULLUS LANATUS VAR. LANATUS; CUCUMIS SATIVUS; CUCURBITA MOSCHATA; CUCURBITACEAE; HYMENOPTERA; PARTAMONA; PEPONAPIS;

EID: 27744563081     PISSN: 0008347X     EISSN: 19183240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4039/n04-043     Document Type: Article

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