Changing bee and hoverfly pollinator assemblages along an urban-rural gradient

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Bates, Adam J ^a   Sadler, Jon P ^a   Fairbrass, Alison J ^a   Falk, Steven J ^b   Hale, James D ^a   Matthews, Tom J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b Warwickshire Museum   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTITUDE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEE; FLOWERING; HABITAT QUALITY; HOME RANGE; HOVERFLY; INSECT; LAND USE; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; POLLINATOR; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; UNITED KINGDOM; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; URBANIZATION; WIND; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; CITY; CLASSIFICATION; FLY; GEOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

APOIDEA; MAGNOLIOPHYTA;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEES; BIODIVERSITY; CITIES; DIPTERA; GEOGRAPHY; GREAT BRITAIN; POLLINATION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; URBANIZATION;

EID: 80051603390     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023459     Document Type: Article

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