Contrasting responses of hoverflies and wild bees to habitat structure and land use change in a tropical landscape (southern Yunnan, SW China)

Insect Science

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 666-676

  Meng, Ling Zeng ^a,b   Martin, Konrad ^a   Liu, Jing Xin ^a   Burger, Frank ^c   Chen, Jin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^c Natural History Museum of Erfurt   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apidae; Insects; Pollinators; Rubber plantations; Syrphidae; Tropical forest

Indexed keywords

APIDAE; APOIDEA; HEXAPODA; SYRPHIDAE;

EID: 84870235156     PISSN: 16729609     EISSN: 17447917     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-7917.2011.01481.x     Document Type: Article

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