Canopy vs. understory: Does tree diversity affect bee and wasp communities and their natural enemies across forest strata?

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 258, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 609-615

  Sobek, Stephanie ^a   Tscharntke, Teja ^a   Scherber, Christoph ^a   Schiele, Susanne ^a   Steffan Dewenter, Ingolf ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Beech; Ecosystem functioning; Eumeninae; Habitat heterogeneity; Insects; Sphecidae; Trap nests; Vertical stratification

Indexed keywords

BEECH; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; EUMENINAE; HABITAT HETEROGENEITY; INSECTS; SPHECIDAE; TRAP NESTS; VERTICAL STRATIFICATION;

BIOCONTROL; ECOSYSTEMS; OCEAN HABITATS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

FORESTRY;

ABUNDANCE; BEE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; NATURAL ENEMY; NEST SITE; PARASITISM; PREDATOR; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WASP;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; FAGUS; INSECTS; STRATIFICATION;

APOCRITA; APOIDEA; EUMENINAE; FAGUS; HEXAPODA; SPHECIDAE;

EID: 67649970512     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2009.04.026     Document Type: Article

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