Plant-flower visitor interaction webs: Temporal stability and pollinator specialization increases along an experimental plant diversity gradient

Basic and Applied Ecology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 300-309

  Ebeling, Anne ^a,b   Klein, Alexandra Maria ^a,c   Tscharntke, Teja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^c Section Ecosystem Functioning   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biodiversity experiment; Bumble bees; Grassland; Honey bees; Solitary bees; Temporal stability

Indexed keywords

APIS MELLIFERA; APOIDEA; BOMBUS (GENUS); HEXAPODA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

EID: 79957623261     PISSN: 14391791     EISSN: 16180089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.baae.2011.04.005     Document Type: Article

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