Overplaying the role of honey bees as pollinators: A comment on Aebi and Neumann (2011)

Trends in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 141-142

  Ollerton, Jeff ^a   Price, Victoria ^a   Armbruster, W Scott ^b   Memmott, Jane ^c   Watts, Stella ^a,d   Waser, Nickolas M ^e,f   Totland, Ørjan ^g   Goulson, Dave ^h   Alarcón, Ruben ⁱ   Stout, Jane C ^j   Tarrant, Sam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^g NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^h UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS   (United States)

^j TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BEE; LETTER; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEES;

APIS MELLIFERA;

EID: 84857195504     PISSN: 01695347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tree.2011.12.001     Document Type: Letter

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