Assessing bee species richness in two Mediterranean communities: Importance of habitat type and sampling techniques

Ecological Research

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 969-983

  Nielsen, Anders ^a,b,m   Steffan Dewenter, Ingolf ^c   Westphal, Catrin ^c,d   Messinger, Olivia ^a,e   Potts, Simon G ^f   Roberts, Stuart P M ^f   Settele, Josef ^g   Szentgyörgyi, Hajnalka ^h   Vaissière, Bernard E ⁱ   Vaitis, Michalis ^a   Woyciechowski, Michal ^h   Bazos, Ioannis ^j   Biesmeijer, Jacobus C ^k   Bommarco, Riccardo ^l   Kunin, William E ^k   Tscheulin, Thomas ^a   Lamborn, Ellen ^a,i   Petanidou, Theodora ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE AEGEAN   (Greece)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^e SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^g HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^h JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

ⁱ Laboratoire de Toxicologie Environnementale   (France)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^k UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^l SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^m UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

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Author keywords

Abundance based Coverage Estimator (ACE); Apoidea; Biodiversity hotspot; Hymenoptera; Mediterranean scrub; Olive groves; Pan traps; Phrygana; Sampling methods; Subunit based rarefaction curves; Transect walks

Indexed keywords

BEE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EVERGREEN TREE; FLOWER; HABITAT TYPE; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; PLANT-POLLINATOR INTERACTION; POLLINATION; SAMPLING; SCRUB; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TRANSECT; TRAP (EQUIPMENT); ZOOGEOGRAPHY;

GREECE; LESBOS; NORTHERN AEGEAN;

APOIDEA; HYMENOPTERA;

EID: 80052673321     PISSN: 09123814     EISSN: 14401703     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11284-011-0852-1     Document Type: Article

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