Bumble bees (Bombus spp) along a gradient of increasing urbanization

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Ahrné, Karin ^a   Bengtsson, Jan ^a   Elmqvist, Thomas ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUMBLEBEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECOSYSTEM; FLOWER; HABITAT QUALITY; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POLLINATION; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; RURAL AREA; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SWEDEN; URBANIZATION; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; BEE; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

APOIDEA; BOMBUS (GENUS);

ANIMALS; BEES; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; URBANIZATION;

EID: 65949087029     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005574     Document Type: Article

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