Drastic historic shifts in bumble-bee community composition in Sweden

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1727, 2012, Pages 309-315

  Bommarco, Riccardo ^a   Lundin, Ola ^a   Smith, Henrik G ^b   Rundlöf, Maj ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Bombus spp.; Ecosystem service; Pollination; Red clover; Trifolium pratense

Indexed keywords

BEE; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CROP YIELD; DECADAL VARIATION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENDANGERED SPECIES; FLOWER VISITING; LEGUME; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; POLLINATION; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SPECIES EVENNESS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

SWEDEN;

EID: 80053157699     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.0647     Document Type: Article

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