Estimating the Density of Honeybee Colonies across Their Natural Range to Fill the Gap in Pollinator Decline Censuses;Estimación de la Densidad de Colonias de Abejas en su Rango Natural para Cerrar la Brecha en los Censos del Declive de Polinizadores

Conservation Biology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 583-593

  Jaffé, Rodolfo ^a   Dietemann, Vincent ^a,b,c   Allsopp, Mike H ^d   Costa, Cecilia ^e   Crewe, Robin M ^c   Dall'olio, Raffaele ^e   de la Rúa, Pilar ^f   El niweiri, Mogbel A A ^a   Fries, Ingemar ^g   Kezic, Nikola ^h   Meusel, Michael S ⁱ   Paxton, Robert J ^j   Shaibi, Taher ^a   Stolle, Eckart ^a   Moritz, Robin F A ^a  

^a MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY HALLE WITTENBERG   (Germany)

^b AGROSCOPE LIEBEFELD POSIEUX RESEARCH STATION ALP   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA   (South Africa)

^d PLANT PROTECTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

^e CRA API   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MURCIA   (Spain)

^g SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^h UNIVERSITY OF ZAGREB   (Croatia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^j QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

Apis mellifera; Beekeeping; Ecosystem functioning; Honeybee conservation; Land use; Pollinator decline

Indexed keywords

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; APICULTURE; CENSUS; CLIMATE CONDITIONS; COLONY; CONSERVATION STATUS; DEMOGRAPHY; DESERT; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; GENETIC MARKER; HOME RANGE; HONEYBEE; LAND USE; NATURE RESERVE; POLLINATOR; POPULATION DECLINE; POPULATION DENSITY; SAMPLING; SPECIES CONSERVATION;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; APICULTURE; ARTICLE; ASIA; BEE; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKER; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENETICS; MALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SOUTH AFRICA;

ANIMALS; ASIA, CENTRAL; BEEKEEPING; BEES; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; EUROPE; FEMALE; GENETIC MARKERS; GENETIC VARIATION; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; OWNERSHIP; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; SOUTH AFRICA;

CENTRAL ASIA; KALAHARI DESERT; NORTHERN EUROPE; SAHARA; SOUTH AFRICA;

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA;

EID: 77954163250     PISSN: 08888892     EISSN: 15231739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2009.01331.x     Document Type: Article

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