Differential effects of habitat isolation and landscape composition on wasps, bees, and their enemies

Oecologia

Volumn 165, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 713-721

  Schüepp, Christof ^a   Herrmann, John D ^a   Herzog, Felix ^b   Schmidt Entling, Martin H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b AGROSCOPE RECKENHOLZ TÄNIKON RESEARCH STATION ART   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Habitat fragmentation; Hymenoptera; Landscape ecology; Parasitism; Spatial scale

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; BEE; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; ISOLATION EFFECT; LANDSCAPE; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; PARASITISM; PATCHINESS; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; WASP; WOODLAND;

SWISS PLATEAU; SWITZERLAND;

APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 79951556017     PISSN: 00298549     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00442-010-1746-6     Document Type: Article

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