How do landscape composition and configuration, organic farming and fallow strips affect the diversity of bees, wasps and their parasitoids?

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 491-500

  Holzschuh, Andrea ^a   Steffan Dewenter, Ingolf ^b   Tscharntke, Teja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agri environment schemes; Field margins; Pollinators; Predators; Trophic interactions

Indexed keywords

AGRI-ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; AGRICULTURAL LAND; BEE; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL; BREEDING SITE; COLONIZATION; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; HABITAT QUALITY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; ORGANIC FARMING; PARASITISM; PARASITOID; POLLINATION; POLLINATOR; PREDATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TROPHIC INTERACTION; WASP; WHEAT;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WASP;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BEES; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; WASPS;

APOIDEA; TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 77953981588     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2009.01642.x     Document Type: Article

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