High Bee and Wasp Diversity in a Heterogeneous Tropical Farming System Compared to Protected Forest

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Schüepp, Christof ^a,b   Rittiner, Sarah ^a   Entling, Martin H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; AGROFORESTRY; ARTICLE; BEE; CENTRAL AMERICA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FOREST; HABITAT; LANDSCAPE; NONHUMAN; SEASON; SPECIES DIVERSITY; WASP;

AGRICULTURE; ANIMALS; BEES; BIODIVERSITY; CENTRAL AMERICA; ECOSYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TREES; TROPICAL CLIMATE; WASPS;

APOCRITA; APOIDEA;

EID: 84871536302     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052109     Document Type: Article

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