An examination of synchrony between insect emergence and flowering in Rocky Mountain meadows

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 469-491

  Forrest, Jessica R K ^a,c   James D Thomson, ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate change; Elevational gradient; Hymenoptera; Phenology; Pollination; Reciprocal transplant experiment; Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory; Solitary bees; Trap nests; Trophic mismatch

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIAPAUSE; ELEVATION; EMERGENCE; FLOWER; FLOWERING; GROWING SEASON; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INSECT; MEADOW; NEST SITE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOLOGY; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SYNCHRONY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VERNALIZATION;

ROCKY MOUNTAINS;

APOCRITA; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 80051536675     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-1885.1     Document Type: Article

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