Quantitative historical change in bumblebee (Bombus spp.) assemblages of red clover fields

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Dupont, Yoko L ^a   Damgaard, Christian ^a   Simonsen, Vibeke ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUMBLEBEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FLOWERING; NONHUMAN; PLANT REPRODUCTION; POLLINATOR; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION SIZE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RED CLOVER; SPECIES COMPOSITION; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; ANIMAL; BEE; CLOVER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

HEXAPODA; TRIFOLIUM PRATENSE;

ANIMALS; BEES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; POLLINATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; TRIFOLIUM;

EID: 80053169567     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025172     Document Type: Article

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