Local and landscape effects on bee communities of Hungarian winter cereal fields

Agricultural and Forest Entomology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 59-66

  Kovács Hostyánszki, Anikó ^a   Batáry, Péter ^b,c   Báldi, András ^c  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Apidae; Body size; Fertilizer; Insecticide; Pollination; Semi natural habitat; Stability

Indexed keywords

APIDAE; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA;

EID: 78651093833     PISSN: 14619555     EISSN: 14619563     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-9563.2010.00498.x     Document Type: Article

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