Scaling down from species to individuals: A flower-visitation network between individual honeybees and thistle plants

Oikos

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 170-177

  Dupont, Y L ^a   Trojelsgaard K ^a   Olesen, J M ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DICOTYLEDON; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; FLOWER VISITING; HONEYBEE; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; MEADOW; NESTEDNESS; POWER LAW; SCALE EFFECT;

DENMARK;

ANIMALIA; APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; CIRSIUM; CIRSIUM ARVENSE;

EID: 78751619238     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2010.18699.x     Document Type: Article

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