Bumblebee vulnerability: Common correlates of winners and losers across three continents

Conservation Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 931-940

  Williams, Paul ^a   Colla, Sheila ^b   Xie, Zhenghua ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Bombus; Cambio de fauna; Competencia de especies; Declinaci n de polinizadores; Ensambles de especies; Especializaci n clim tica; Estructura de la comunidad; Vulnerabilidad de especies

Indexed keywords

BEE; BODY SIZE; CLIMATE EFFECT; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; LAND USE CHANGE; META-ANALYSIS; PHENOLOGY; RANGE SIZE; SPECIALIZATION;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; CANADA; CHINA; GENETICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BEES; CANADA; CHINA; GREAT BRITAIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ASIA; CANADA; CHINA; EURASIA; EUROPE; FAR EAST; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 67650441716     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01176.x     Document Type: Article

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