Measuring bee diversity in different European habitats and biogeographical regions

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 653-671

  Westphal, Catrin ^a   Bommarco, Riccardo ^b   Carré, Gabriel ^c   Lamborn, Ellen ^d   Morison, Nicolas ^c   Petanidou, Theodora ^d   Potts, Simon G ^e   Roberts, Stuart P M ^e   Szentgyörgyi, Hajnalka ^f   Tscheulin, Thomas ^e   Vaissière, Bernard E ^c   Woyciechowski, Michal ^f   Biesmeuer, Jacobus C ^g   Kunin, William E ^g   Settele, Josef ^h   Steffan Dewenter, Ingolf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^b SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^c Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^e UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^f JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^g UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^h HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Abundance based coverage estimator (ACE); Agricultural and seminatural habitats; Hymenoptera, Apiformes; Indicator method; Pan traps; Pollinator initiatives; Standardized monitoring schemes; Subunit based rarefaction curve

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BEE; HABITAT TYPE; MONITORING SYSTEM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATOR; SAMPLING; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRANSECT; TRAP (EQUIPMENT); ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 57549110240     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-1292.1     Document Type: Article

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