Local geographic distributions of bumble bees near crested butte, Colorado: Competition and community structure revisited

Environmental Entomology

Volumn 41, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1332-1349

  Pyke, Graham H ^a,b,c,d   Inouye, David W ^d,e   Thomson, James D ^d,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM   (Australia)

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d ROCKY MOUNTAIN BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bombus; competition; corolla length; elevation; proboscis length

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BEE; COEXISTENCE; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; ELEVATION; FLOWER VISITING; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; NICHE PARTITIONING;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL DISPERSAL; ARTICLE; BEE; BIODIVERSITY; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FLOWER; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; NECTAR; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; UNITED STATES;

ANIMAL DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BEES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; COLORADO; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FLOWERS; GEOGRAPHY; PLANT NECTAR; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

COLORADO; UNITED STATES;

APOIDEA; BOMBUS (GENUS);

EID: 84871552866     PISSN: 0046225X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1603/EN11284     Document Type: Article

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