Assessing the value of Rural Stewardship schemes for providing foraging resources and nesting habitat for bumblebee queens (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

Biological Conservation

Volumn 142, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 2023-2032

  Lye, Gillian ^a   Park, Kirsty ^a   Osborne, Juliet ^b   Holland, John ^c   Goulson, Dave ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^b ROTHAMSTED RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c GAME CONSERVANCY TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Agri environment; Agriculture; Bombus; Farm; Land management; Pollinator

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ECOSYSTEM; AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BEE; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; GRASSLAND; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; HABITAT TYPE; NEST SITE; POLLINATOR; QUEEN; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

EURASIA; EUROPE; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

APIDAE; APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 68349152831     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2009.03.032     Document Type: Article

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