Landscape elements as potential barriers and corridors for bees, wasps and parasitoids

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1816-1825

  Krewenka, Kristin M ^a   Holzschuh, Andrea ^a,b   Tscharntke, Teja ^a   Dormann, Carsten F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^c HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agricultural landscape; Bees; Corridors; Grass strips; Hedges; Wasps

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ARABLE LAND; BEE; DISPERSAL; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; GRASSLAND; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HABITAT CORRIDOR; HABITAT FRAGMENTATION; HABITAT LOSS; ISOLATED POPULATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; MOVEMENT; PARASITOID; PATCHINESS; POPULATION DECLINE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRAP (EQUIPMENT); WASP; WILD POPULATION;

GERMANY; GOTTINGEN; LOWER SAXONY;

APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 79957645799     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2011.03.014     Document Type: Article

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