Common factors influence bee foraging in urban and wildland landscapes

Urban Ecosystems

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 581-598

  Wojcik, Victoria A ^a,b   McBride, Joe R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Pollinator Partnership   (United States)

Author keywords

Bees; California poppy; Food resource usage; Foraging patterns; Pollinators; Wildland urban landscape comparison

Indexed keywords

APOIDEA; BOMBUS (GENUS); BOMBUS VOSNESENSKII; ESCHSCHOLZIA; ESCHSCHOLZIA CALIFORNICA; HALICTIDAE; HALICTINAE; HEXAPODA; MEGACHILE; PAPAVER; PAPAVERACEAE;

EID: 84865592787     PISSN: 10838155     EISSN: 15731642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11252-011-0211-6     Document Type: Article

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