Molecular and spatial analyses reveal links between colony-specific foraging distance and landscape-level resource availability in two bumblebee species

Oikos

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 734-742

  Carvell, Claire ^a   Jordan, William C ^b   Bourke, Andrew F G ^c   Pickles, Robert ^b   Redhead, John W ^a   Heard, Matthew S ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEE; COLONY FOUNDING; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HABITAT AVAILABILITY; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; RESOURCE AVAILABILITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; WILD POPULATION;

BOMBUS LAPIDARIUS; BOMBUS PASCUORUM; HEXAPODA;

EID: 84859706074     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: 16000706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19832.x     Document Type: Article

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